“Working for the betterment of patients with cancer is a calling to which I have dedicated my life. Each day, once I walk into the Tata Medical Center at 8 am, I lose track of how time flies. Working with my team of dedicated doctors, trying to ensure that each patient’s story at the hospital has a happy ending is a tough task. But the smile on the patients’ faces as they leave the hospital makes it all worthwhile.”
Dr Mammen Chandy
Director – Tata Medical Center, Kolkata
"Cancer of the bone with spread to the lungs is bad enough. But 14 year old Ori from Bangladesh had more sufferings in store. She had major infections and heart problems during treatment. She was also in danger of losing her leg. Two years after completing treatment, Ori is a glowing young girl, confidence radiating from her as she pirouettes into the clinic at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata. She proudly shows off the certificates she has won at school in academics and music. Survivors like Ori give us the inspiration to touch the stars."
Dr Arpita Bhattacharyya
Consultant Paediatric Oncologist
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata
"The scars of cancer remains in the mind long after the surgical wounds have healed......Only when 28 year old schoolteacher, Neetu Kumari from Jharkhand came to my clinic clutching her wedding invitation in hand, four years after we had treated her for thyroid cancer, did I realise that she had finally beaten cancer long after we had done it. As we strive to cure more and more cancers, society too needs to open its arms to accept its survivors."
Dr Pattatheyil Arun
Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata
"I saw Mamata in my clinic last week. She had come for her follow up visit with a big smile on her face and her new born baby girl Piu. Three years earlier when she came to us, a patient of advanced ovarian cancer, she could not imagine this day. She had the enormous courage to opt for fertility preserving treatment for her cancer, and underwent a six hour long surgery followed by chemotherapy. She remained well, not just alive, but fulfilling her dream of motherhood. This is why I do what I do."
Dr Jaydip Bhaumik
Senior Consultant, Gynaecological Oncology
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata
"We know that when a patient becomes alright he remembers the care givers but we had a patient who had disease progression on treatment, wrote a letter to TMC stating that he considers the ward doctors his sons and the nurses daughters. This shows the humane hand in healing. This is what is expected of TMC.
Patient: Mr.Asish Bhataccharya."
Dr. Saurabh Bhave
M.D.Medicine, Fellow in Clinical Haematology Consultant
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata
"Saptha Sindu is a 14 year-old-boy from Agartala, Tripura. His father is a teacher, mother a homemaker. Saptha was diagnosed with a complicated, rare liver cancer. Before reaching Tata Medical Center (TMC) he had done the rounds of other private hospitals in Kolkata. The tumour had grown, much money had been spent. TMC decided to subsidise his treatment. The GI-HPB Surgery team performed a complex operation where the right half of his liver bearing the tumour was removed. The sense of relief on his parent faces makes me proud of 'my' hospital."
Dr. Manas Roy
Gastrointestinal Surgeon
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata
