Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata

The Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI) is a 440-bed multispeciality hospital at 7/2 Diamond Harbour Road in New Alipore, Kolkata. It is the flagship hospital of CK Birla Hospitals and holds NABH and NABL accreditation. The hospital provides medical, surgical and critical-care services across a wide range of specialties, with facilities for complex inpatient care and transplantation.

Major clinical areas include cardiology, oncology, renal sciences, neurosciences, orthopaedics and joint replacement, gastro sciences, haematology, general surgery and critical care. Cardiology provides angioplasty, coronary stenting, pacemaker and defibrillator implantation. Renal sciences includes nephrology, urology and kidney transplantation. Oncology combines cancer surgery, radiotherapy and systemic treatments such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Haematology services include bone marrow aspiration and biopsy and stem-cell transplantation.

CMRI has more than 75 critical-care beds, more than 300 ward beds and nine modular operating theatres. Its infrastructure includes a 256-slice CT scanner with CT simulation, a 1.5 Tesla MRI system with high-intensity focused ultrasound and an orthopaedic surgical robot. The hospital also lists a respiratory intensive-care unit with more than 20 beds. Interventional radiology uses CT, MRI, ultrasound and fluoroscopy to guide vascular and non-vascular procedures.

Surgical services include cardiothoracic, gastrointestinal, colorectal, endocrine, vascular, oncological and orthopaedic operations. Treatment capabilities described by the hospital include coronary artery bypass grafting, heart-valve repair or replacement, video-assisted thoracic surgery, colectomy, thyroid and adrenal surgery, kidney transplantation and robotic-assisted knee surgery. Patients may find CMRI relevant for cardiac disease, cancer, kidney disease, neurological conditions, major orthopaedic procedures, transplantation or treatment that requires intensive-care support in Kolkata. The breadth of departments is suited to cases involving several specialties.