Perspective
Dental, oral and craniofacial diseases and disorders are among the most common health problems affecting the people of India and around the world. These problems are compounded when we notice disorders from birth defects in the form of cleft lip and palate to injuries to the head and face resulting to emergency room visits to devastating head and neck cancers accounting for innumerable loss of lives. While the fact remains that these deformities can be easily corrected by surgical means, the people with chronic defects generally tend to ignore them in view of non availability of any specialist, high cost etc. In the process only a small fraction of people suffering from birth disorders and / or disorders arising from injuries is able to access good surgery and surely the persons with such defects would like to avail of the treatment as such defects can be rectified with very little effort.
The craniofacial area includes the base of the skull, the facial skeleton and underlying soft tissues, the skull vaults and the scalp. Craniofacial surgery consists of operations on the soft tissues and bones in the head and face. Though these operations are done primarily on children born with deformities i.e abnormal shapes of the head and face, craniofacial surgery also involves repairing damage caused by serious injuries and abnormal growths such as tumors, congenital deformities etc.

The need for the hospital
The incidence of craniofacial deformation in our country is quite high. Quite frequently we come across children and adults with deformities in the face as well in the cranium. The defects range from incomplete lips, palate, ugly shape of the noses, jutting out teeth, genetically inherited unaesthetic skull & shapes of the face. These defects not only result in impaired functions of speech, chewing, swallowing & breathing but play a vital role in the development of the psychological status of the individual as well of the parents too.
Furthermore, with a increase in number of victims arising from road traffic accidents , for a city like Kolkata with a population of over 2 crores , a few trauma care center is a bare necessity. Maxilliofacial trauma is also very common but unfortunately they are not taken up properly. Most of the time, they are subjected to maltreatment and improper care.
In India, there is hardly any specialized facility of this kind. Some hospitals located in Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai etc have these facilities in a limited way. Not only in Kolkata but in the whole Eastern India there is no such specialty place where such kind of comprehensive time consuming treatment protocol is followed.
Assessing the current situation, a need was, therefore , felt to establish a hospital in Kolkata which will be the first of its kind in India.

Objective

• The aim of this super specialty hospital project is to provide a real world class facility through services of specialists of multiple disciplines for correcting the various types of acquired craniofacial deformities, post surgery defects and post injury deformities.
• In view of prevailing socio economical constraints our earnest endeavor will be to provide the treatment within the reach of all and surely for such people who are not in a position to bear even this cost.
• Apart from creating world class hospital facilities, the institute will be engaged in research & development in allied field alongside providing in-house educational training and through exchange programme to groom up future medical professionals.

Collaboration -

Avinash Dental Laboratory and Research Institute is having a connection with “ Smile Train ”, New York, U.S.A. – a charitable training organization for technological upgradation.

Project Profile -

The aim of this project is to correct the various types of acquired craniofacial deformities, post surgery defects, post injury deformities, which are abundant in our country. Various specialists of multiple disciplines will be involved in the treatment procedure. In view of the prevailing socio – economic constraints, our aim is to bring this treatment within the reach of all the strata of society.

The project includes the following facilities :

A) Surgery Block
1) Oral and maxillofacial surgery
2) Plastic surgery
3) Neurosurgery
4) Paediatric surgery
5) Orthopaedic surgery
6) General Surgery
7) E.N.T. Surgery
8) Eye Surgery

B) Medicine Block
1) General medicine
2) Paediatric medicine
3) Cardiac care unit
4) Speech therapy unit
5) Post O.T observation area
6) Physiotherapy unit
7) Cardio Thoracic Surgery

C) Diagnostic Block
1) Complete Pathological Laboratory Back –up
2) CD CT, SPIRAL Scan and MRI Facility
3) Ultrasound and X- ray with Orthopantomogram X – ray Machine
4) Complete Dental Laboratory Facility.

D) In-Patient Block
1) 400 Bed accommodation
a) 200 Bed in Premium segment
b) 160 Bed in Economy segment
c) 40 Free bed
2) 24 – hour Medicine shop
3) Blood bank

E) Additional Facilities
1) Residential Medical Officers Complex
2) Residential Staff Quarters and Residential Sister Quarters
3) Meditation and Motivation training programmed to achieve highest quality service.
4) Canteen and common room facility for staffs and doctors
5) Arrangement of quality waiting room for patients in admission queue.
6) Accommodations and canteen facility for the patient party
7) Roof garden facility for a long staying patient and may be adopted for non- ambulatory patient.
8) Entertainment room for the patient
9) ATM facility through a renowned bank
10) Electronic communication and reproduction facilities

F) Training Institute
1) Teaching Center
2) Hostel
3) Laboratory Facility
4) Conference area

Future Scenario

The hospital proposes to set up the following facilities in time to come.

• Disaster management provision including use of helicopter service.
• Mobile emergency service for the rural areas
• Physically Challenged persons’ rehabilitation and treatment program
• Telemedicine
• Dental Spa
• Rain harvesting for meeting the water requirement
• Solar energy system for power requirements
• Eco – friendly waste management system