KOLKATA: The Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER) has received the administrative sanction from the state for its infectious diseases (ID) department. This will pave the way for the institute to start a superspeciality course on ID. If all goes well, the state-run institute will be the second in Bengal to run this course after STM.
In the latest order from the health department, the state has approved the creation of 50 new posts in different categories for the ID department at IPGMER & SSKM Hospital.
TOI on November 24 had reported the hospital creating an ID ward at Sambhunath Pandit Hospital (SNPH), its satellite unit. Outdoor services had also been initiated. Currently two faculty members — Yogiraj Ray and Ayan Basu — have been posted in the department. The order from the health department has allowed the creation of four more posts for faculty members along with nursing staff, medical technologists and junior doctors.
“A 60-bed ward has already been created. Along with the creation of posts, we will also require to gradually upgrade facilities, including the laboratory,” said IPGMER director Manimoy Banerjee.
In December, National Medical Council gave its approval to School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, to start the three seats of DM in ID. IPGMER is expected to apply for four seats once it gets ready with all required infrastructure, including manpower. Being a multispeciality hospital where transplant surgeries are conducted regularly, IPGMER has an advantage.
“Transplant infections are part of the curriculum to study infectious diseases. So that is an added advantage at IPGMER,” said ID associate professor Yogiraj Ray.
With only a handful of ID specialists in the country, the dearth was felt in the pandemic. While only a couple of institutes teaches ID, a few medical colleges in other states are also trying to set up such departments.
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