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IIT Kharagpur’s Healthcare Ecosystem

IIT Kharagpur’s Healthcare Ecosystem

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A new prescription

A new prescription

Railways and the Indian Institute of Technology lend Kharagpur its instant recall value. On February 5, 2019, IIT Kharagpur embarked on a new initiative with South Eastern Railway Hospital that is likely to make the town a major destination for medical research and education as well as medical care. The MoU signed between the two premier institutions cements an arrangement in which both will cooperate and collaborate to further mutually beneficial academic, research and clinical activities. In accordance with the arrangement, IIT Kharagpur and the SE Railway Hospital, which is a 340 bed Heritage hospital, will provide diagnostic services support…
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From the lab to the hospital

From the lab to the hospital

Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Head, School of Medical Science and Technology, talks about the thrust areas, ongoing programmes, research, achievements and long-term goals of one of the youngest and most ambitious departments of IIT Kharagpur Could you talk about the genesis of SMST? The department started its journey in 2001 against a background where technology was progressively coming into the domain of medical world. It was felt that a unique school or department should be established that would work at the interface between medicine and technology. A medical school would be bothered about the clinical aspects of the study, not necessarily…
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