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 (2023)

Indoor (Tropical Medicine + Viral Diseases) Death OPD Old ticket OPD New ticket Total OPD ticket
2970 316 11133 53307 64440

Critical Care Unit

The nine bedded Critical Care Unit runs under the Department of Tropical Medicine with Dr. Debojyoti Majumdar (Asst. Prof, 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 (2023)

Procedure Number
Bone Marrow 102
ECG 6292
Lumbar Puncture 663
Liver Biopsy 9
Kidney biopsy 19
Other Tru-Cut Biopsy 17
Liver and splenic abscess drainage 32
Malarial antigen test 146
Trop T 243

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. Kundu S, Rahaman M, Misra AK. Clinicoeiological study of meningitis in HIV-infected patients admitted at a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata. Eur J Cardiovasc Med. 2023;13(1)
  2. Biswas T, Naskar A, Halder P, Mallik S, Mondal A, Saha B. Etiologies of space-occupying lesions of the liver among patients presenting in a tertiary care center in India. JIMA. 2024;122(1).
  3. Modak D, Biswas S, Mondal A, Biswas M, Mascellino MT, Chakraborty B, Tiwari S, Shewale AD, Nale T, Dey R. Seroprevalence of brucellosis among animal handlers in West Bengal, India: an occupational health study. AIMS Microbiol. 2024;10(1):1–11. doi:10.3934/microbiol.2024001.
  4. Haldar S, Banerjee K, Modak D, Mondal A, Sharma C, Vasireddy T et al. Case report: a series of three meningoencephalitis cases caused by Acanthamoeba spp. from Eastern India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023;110(2). doi:10.4269/ajtmh.23-0396.
  5. Mondal A, Modak D, Guha SK. Prevalence of rheumatological manifestations in HIV-infected patients in a tertiary care center in Eastern India: a prospective observational study. J Indian Med Assoc. 2023;121(7).
  6. Mandal M, Basu S, Roy D, Debnath A, Guha SK. Changes in serum levels of IL-6, TNF-alpha, and CRP in people living with HIV following initiation of antiretroviral therapy: a longitudinal cohort study from a tertiary hospital in Eastern India. J Indian Med Assoc. 2023;121(9):20–4.
  7. Sarkar K, et al. Deep vein thrombosis in a patient of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. In: Advanced Concepts in Medicine and Medical Research. Vol 1. 2023.
  8. Chatterjee R, Ghosh P, Sarkar K, Samajdar SS, Mukherjee S, George A, Pramanik N. Prevalence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in post-tuberculosis lung fibrosis patients: a cross-sectional observational study. J Assoc Chest Physicians. 2023;11:198–201.
  9. Chatterjee R, Chakraborty A, Sarkar K, Pramanik N, Mukherjee S. Tuberculosis with new-onset diabetes and hypertension following recovery from coronavirus disease 2019 infection: a case series. J Pract Cardiovasc Sci. 2023;9:64–6.
  10. Chatterjee R, Halder P, Samajdar SS, Ghosal P, Mukherjee S, Jana K, Saha B. Correlation between hematocrit and inferior vena cava collapsibility in adult patients with dengue fever: a prospective observational study at a tertiary care setup in Eastern India. MRIMS J Health Sci. 2023;XX(XX).