Everyone who has at any point been a fan of
‘ER’, ‘Days of our lives’ or ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, would have some amount of
fascination with Neurologists and Neurosurgeons. Neurology, in simple words, deals
with diseases and disorders of the nervous system and a neurologist is a
doctors who studies these. According to reports, India has a shortage of
neurologists (one for every 8, 50, 000 Indians) and the best specialists in the
field are mostly in the metropolitan cities.
Kolkata, the first city in Asia to have an institution
that taught modern medicine, is home to many such specialists. Diseases like
Cerebral Palsy that can be prevented to an extent with proper neo-natal care,
have come in limelight and are being promoted in the city by NGOS like Bishwa
Bandhan. With relatively better health care system in place in the former
capital of India, disorders of the brain are given the attention that lacks in
many other cities of the country.
A report by one of the leading news
websites in the country states that brain strokes in the younger population is
on the rise. Currently 8%-9% of those affected are less than 49 years of age. The
neurologists in Kolkata, however, have also been equally competent in their
treatments. In the recent years, doctors have successfully done pioneering surgeries,
including one where the patient was required to be wide awake. This was a
unique achievement in the field as this had never been done in India before. Along
with this, treating numerous minors and infants has also added many feathers to
their caps.
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