Department of Tropical Medicine

Faculty

Name Photograph Designation Educational Qualifications Registration Number
Prof. (Dr.) Mehebubar Rahman Professor & Head MBBS, DCH, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 52147
Dr. Sudeshna Mallik Associate Professor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 53957
Dr. Dolonchampa Modak Associate Professor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 50245
Dr. Debananda Gonjhu Associate Professor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 57501
Dr. Manab Kumar Ghosh Assistant Professor MBBS, DCH, DTM&H, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 42575
Dr. Madhuchhanda Mandal (Kayal) Assistant Professor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 55622
Dr. Arindam Naskar Assistant Professor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine), MRCP (UK), FRCP (Edinburgh) WBMC 62622
Dr. Shekhar Pal Assistant Professor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine), MRCP (UK) WBMC 57562
Dr. Kumkum Sarkar Assistant Professor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 63240
Dr. Amartaya Kr Mishra Assistant Professor MBBS, Dip Card, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 46991
Dr. Prantiki Halder Assistant Professor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine), MRCP (UK) WBMC 66896
Dr. Debajyoti Majumder RMO cum Clinical Tutor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 64604
Dr. Sourav Kundu RMO cum Clinical Tutor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 66784
Dr. Manoj Kumar Gupta RMO cum Clinical Tutor MBBS, MD (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 66852

Senior Resident

Name Designation
Dr. Alex George Senior Resident
Dr. MD Khairul Bashar Senior Resident
Dr. Safiqul Islam Senior Resident
Dr. Sambudhya Chakraborty Senior Resident
Dr. Sweety Barua Senior Resident
Dr. Ushinor Das Senior Resident

Staff

Name Designation
Sri Subal Singh GDA
Sahadad Hossain GDA
Smt Dulari Mallik C.T.&S.W

Academic Course

Patient Care Services

Routine Indoor & OPD Cases (2024)

Total Indoor Admission Death OPD Old ticket OPD New ticket Total OPD ticket
3581 364 13202 55064 68266

Critical Care Unit

The nine bedded Critical Care Unit runs under the Department of Tropical Medicine with Dr. Debojyoti Majumdar (RMO cum Clinical Tutor, Dept. of Tropical Medicine) as its in-charge. In addition to the Tropical Medicine patients, patients from other departments including Infectious Diseases and Advanced Microbiology, Haematology, Endocrinology, Dermatology etc. are also given critical care in this CCU when needed.

Routine Diagnostic Services (2024)

Procedure Number
Bone Marrow aspiration and biopsy 260
ECG 6354
ABG 3150
Procalcitonin 165
NT PRO BNP 150
Lumbar Puncture 672
Liver Biopsy 21
Kidney Biopsy 50
Skin Biopsy 113
Splenic Aspiration 3
Malaria Antigen Test 106
Trop I 223
Synovial Fluid Aspiration 35
X-ray 9912
Pigtail Catheter Drain 85
Itrathecal Drug Administration 54
Dialysis Line 200
Central Line 1120
Arterial Line 70
Upper GI Endoscopy (since 21/11/24) 118

Ongoing Research Activities

Investigator Title of the Project
Dr. S. Mallik Characterising Natural killer cell effector functions in COVID-19 vaccinated subjects.
Dr. S. Mallik Cooperative proteomics approach to identify diagnostic biomarker of tuberculosis infection.
Dr. S. Mallik Development of simple scoring system based on clinical findings and simple laboratory test for patients presenting with acute febrile illness (under NHM).
Dr. S. Mallik Identification and characterization of novel dengue severity bio-markers (sponsered by WBDST).
Dr. S. Mallik Characterizing circulating immune complex, complement conjunction, chemokine and cytokine response for the early diagnosis and follow up of arthralgia severity in chikungunya patients (under NHM).
Dr. Madhuchhanda Mandal and Dr. Kumkum Sarkar Study Project proposed for Usefulness of Detection of Intra familial Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection Under NVHCP

Recent Publications

  1. Sarkar K, Mandal M, Chatterjee R, et al. Outcome of Hepatitis B treatment with oral drugs (Tenofovir and Entecavir) in a tertiary care centre in eastern India. Med J Viral Hepat. 2024;8(2):17-20.
  2. Chatterjee R, Sarkar K, et al. Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Record-based Observational Study. Bengal Physician J. 2024;11(2).
  3. Chatterjee R, Ghosh P, Sarkar K, et al. Prevalence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in post-tuberculosis lung fibrosis patients: A cross-sectional observational study. J Assoc Chest Physicians. 2024;11:198-201.
  4. Chatterjee R, Halder P, et al. Clinicoradiological profile of ring-enhancing lesion of brain: A Record-based Observational Study from eastern India. Bengal Physician J. 2024.
  5. Chatterjee R, Halder P, et al. Clinical profile of fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes cases: a diabetes entity unique to tropics. Int J Hum Health Sci. 2024;8(3).
  6. Biswas T, Naskar A, Halder P, Mallik S, Mondal A, Saha B. Etiologies of space-occupying lesions of liver among patients presenting in a tertiary care center in India. J Indian Med Assoc (JIMA). 2024;122(1).
  7. Chakraborty M, Gupta MK, et al. Comparison of Basal Core Promoter Region Mutation among Monoinfected Hepatitis B Virus and Coinfected Hepatitis B Virus with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Patients. J Assoc Physicians India. 2024;72(12):18-21.
  8. Hemid AM, Hossain MA, Majrashi NA, Limkar SL, Elamin M, Rahman M. Adaptive Method for Hepatologic Deep Learning Techniques for Subtyping and Prediction of Liver Disease. Appl Sci. 2024;14(4):1488. doi:10.3390/app14041488.