Kolkata-based ILS Hospitals recently launched its third facility at Dum Dum, the northern fringes of the city. ILS Hospitals, promoted by GPT Healthcare, is a multi-speciality hospital chain in the eastern region with operations in Kolkata’s Salt Lake and Agartala in Tripura.
The 130-bedded, centrally air conditioned multi-speciality hospital, is the first-of-its-kind in the region providing tertiary level clinical care backed by a multi-disciplinary team of doctors. The fully equipped hospital is located very near to the city’s airport.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Om Tantia, Managing Director, ILS Hospitals said, “We are happy to launch our 3rd hospital in Dum Dum, as we felt the northern fringes of the city has been deprived of a dedicated multi-speciality hospital till date. ILS Dumdum, with its state-of-the-art facility, comprises 24X7 emergency and trauma care unit, diagnostics and pharmacy. The hospital has five highly specialised operation theatres with infection control measures like a pressurised environment and laminar air flow. The clinical care is well supported and complemented by state-of-the-art diagnostics including a 1.5 Tesla MRI machine and a high end 128 slice CT scan machine. The entire setup, which includes over 25 critical care beds, is sure to make a profound difference to the population of the area.”
Besides, the critical care team and cardiologists, the emergency unit is backed by a multi-disciplinary trauma care team consisting of orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, ENT and GI surgeons along with specially trained emergency medicine technicians. The unit, backed by a critical care ambulance with advanced life support systems, is a reportedly one of its kind unit in the city.
ILS Hospital offers services in medical specialties like general and laparoscopic surgery, bariatric surgery, gastro intestinal surgery, orthopaedics (spine and joint replacement surgery), gynaecology and obstetrics, neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, uro-surgery, maxillo facial surgery, cancer surgery as well as critical care for adults and newborn.
In addition, the hospital is also reportedly equipped to address areas such as general medicine, clinical cardiology, diabetology, neurology, nephrology, gastro enterology, chest medicine, oncology, paediatrics and neonatology, ENT, dental surgery, ophthalmology etc.
EH News Bureau