Services By MRC

Dr. M. M. Ghatak has pioneered the concept of total Physical and Medical Rehabilitation from the private sector in India.
A brilliant student, he did his M. D. in Physical and Medical Rehabilitation from IPGMER under SSKM Hospital in 1996. He has had exposure at the Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and also at Ramadhibodhi Hospital, Bangkok. Dr. Ghatak is highly inspired by Dr. T. Kavanag, Ex-director, Toronto rehabilitation Center in Canada.
Dr. Ghatak has devoted his life to arousing the awareness of the Indian people towards the importance of total physical and medical rehabilitation for recovery of the patients having partial or total disability caused out of disease, accident or congenital defects.

Mission

In  our  country, huge  number  of  Paralytic, Arthritic  &  disabled  patients  sink  into  frustration  after   listening  “ Nothing can be done anymore ” from  Medical  &  Surgical Specialists.

While Medical Science has reached significantly towards cure and effectively it’s strong wing called “ Medical Rehabilitation ”, India  can’t  serve  that  science  to the  mass  because  of  lack of conciousness & good projects.

Dr. M. M.  Ghatak, the  young  Physiatrist  cum  Medical  Rehabilitationist by  intense  efforts & struggle has created & founded Medical  Rehabilitation  Center in Kolkata &  propagated  the idea  of  this science. People  of  Eastern  India  has  started  getting  hope  of having treatment of such  paralytic &  bed  confining  disabilities.  

There is a long  history of struggle (reflected in the page “ The Background Struggle”),   with  the  mission  to  help  return  to  normal   healthy  life  of  such  patients. 

Fight Back Concept 

A  healthy  person  when  gets  disabled  out  of  say,  brain  or  spinal  injury, stroke  or rheumatological  problems, the  signs  which  treats  the  patient  and  teach  them  to  fight  back and  return to the  mainstream of  the  society  overcoming  the  difficulties and problems is called rehabilitation. 

History – a real struggle 

The journey of MRC started off as ISPAR – Institute of Stroke, Paralysis and Arthritis Rehabilitation in March, 2000 by Dr. Ghatak. It has simply been a home rehabilitation unit from a hundred sq. ft room in Karbala Tank Lane near Manicktala, Kolkata, which increasingly became popular by the day.

In early 2001, a full-fledged multidisciplinary home rehabilitation started with a good team of doctors and qualified therapists  covering good patient population in Kolkata. It gradually became evident that not only the  outsiders (who do not reside in Kolkata) but the people of Kolkata also could not be treated because of the lack of the proper scientific service at  home (e.g.,  gymnasium  activities,  different instrumental  programs,  round  the  clock multidisciplinary  intervention etc.). Hence, as a logical next step, the indoor rehabilitation programme was planned and nourished.

Then after months of voluminous struggle, Dr. Ghatak finally fulfilled his dream. On 30^th October, 2001, a full fledged indoor rehabilitation centre with 16 beds was inaugurated by  Hon’ble  Health Minister, Dr. S. K.  Mishra and Dr. (Prof.) N. N. Sarangi in Park Circus. Gradually a  full fledged hospital (TRA General  Hospital) – the same  premises has been  acquired by Dr. Ghatak and his team and a 50 bedded  Neuro–orthopaedic  rehabilitation set-up has been activated since  1^st March, 2003. The people of  West  Bengal  who  were only concerned with some post illness physiotherapy now have been driven by and motivated towards the complete Rehabilitation treatment.

A good number of  free check–up camps, awareness programs and  scientific seminars have been taken by the same team in different places of West Bengal and the people of  Eastern  India  are  really  charmed  with  such  dedicated  service  towards  the  suffering humanity offered by Dr. Ghatak and his team.  

Conditions we treat

Departments and the Services 

Indoor – 50 bedded indoor set-up having 15 to 90 days package programmes (low cost) with various medical & therapeutic interventions with proper scientific bed side care and nutritional back up. 

Daycare  services in two sessions (Morning & Evening) – Patient registers for either single or double session programme (returns back to home after the session daily) most of the therapeutic and medical intervention like indoor patients are provided to these daycare patients. 

Outdoor – Outdoor consultation and rehabilitation therapies –

General (low cost) & specialty outdoor clinics with consultation by Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Consultant, part time Orthopaedians, Neurologists & Medical Specialists followed by short –term and specific rehabilitation items are provided daily. 

Specialised Services-

• Hand functional treatment- Here is a good hand unit run by occupational therapists

• Botox and Phenol- Few cases (Post CVA spasticity) has been given

• Joint injections and soft tissue injection in different rheumatological conditions

• specialised bedside modification and activities

• Urological rehab with self I. C. C. and bladder training

• Specialised splinting

• Gait evaluation and training

• Pressure sore management (with surgical intervention)

• Audiogram, tongue stimulation and speech management

• Dysphagia management

• Hemiplegic shoulder care

• Specialised nursing care in relation to care of sore, position of the limb & maintainance of daily records

• Specialised dietary modification, Internet access and communication with the western rehab centres

• Specialised drugs and diet in different cases for rehab

For more services and falcilities click here.

The Team   

There is a big rehabilitation team consisting of qualified doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapist, psychotherapist, orthotist, dietician, etc. organized by Dr. Ghatak, the founder and Director of present Medical Rehabilitation Center at TRA General Hospital and National Pain and Arthritis Clinic, Salt Lake.

The team work –

Integration – Every patient is assessed, pain special attention and discussed among the personnel of this team and eventually treated with this very systematic and modern rehabilitation techniques.

Grand discussion – There is a grand discussion held once every week. In this session, 7-8 personalities of various streams discuss the cases of day-care and indoor patients lead and guided by the Medical Rehabilitationist (mostly Dr. M. M. Ghatak) and formulate a joint strategy for treatment.

This results in a multi–disciplinary coverage of the treatment and produces faster improvement in the overall patient condition.

Comments of the patients

1) Mr. Vivian Roy Singh (General Manager of Air India).
Comments - He praised the efforts of Dr. Ghatak and his physiotherapists. 
2) Name - Krishna Chakraborty.
Comments - According to her, the cordial behaviour of the doctors and other medical staffs is the best thing in this hospital.
3) Name - Arijit Roy Chowdhury
Comments - He suggested extension of the hospital in terms of bed increment and also to make the people aware of the concept of rehabilitation.
4) Milan Sengupta 
Comments - He appreciated the extensive efforts of Dr. Ghatak and his team of physiotherapists for early patients recovery.
5) Nirmal Kanti Saha
Comments - He appreciated the doctor's positive attitude / confidience regarding recovery of the patients.
6) Ardhendu Ghosh
According to him, good care is taken and efforts are 100% to make the patient recover.

Some Glorious Moments 

So many praiseworthy situations, achievements have made our center glorious. So many renowned doctors, justice, players, coaches, ministers, higher officials and company directors of West Bengal and Bangladesh visited and was treated in Medical Rehabilitation Center. Few of those are listed below :-

Prof. (Dr.) John Roger – Professor of Neurology (Albert Einstein Medical College).
Taslima Nasrin – Renowned Writer.
Dr. Asoke K. Roy – Renowned Orthopaedic Surgeon in Chicago.
Hon’ble Health Minister, Dr. S. K. Mishra inaugurated “National Pain and Arthritis Clinic”, a branch of Medical Rehabilitation Center (Salt Lake, Calcutta) on 29th August, 2002 and visited Medical Rehabilitation Center for second time.
Mr. Buddhadeb Dasgupta – Renowned Film  Director.
Dr. Souvik Sen – Renowned Neurologist and Director, Stroke Center, North Carolina University, USA visiting patients in Medical Rehabilitation Centre.

Our experience as a developer of the rehabiliation concept -
For paralytic and disabled patients, so long physiotherapy was the only resort to combat the disability. Neurologists, Orthopaedicians and medical specialist were habituated with referral of such cases to physiotherapy directly. Some NGO and Government sponsored organizations though were working on rehabilitation, were not successful to raise and spread the concept of rehabilitation in our state. But presently, Medical Rahabilitation Center and its concept of integrated rehabilitation has rechead not only the doctors and concious people of kolkata but also to the remote vilages of West Bengal and Bangladesh. The American and European post disease indoor rehabilitation concept has been truly established in Kolkata by Medical Rehablitation Center and it has created huge demand and craze among the general people also.

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