Peerless Hospital & B.K. Roy Research Centre, Kolkata

Peerless Hospital & B.K. Roy Research Centre is a 500-bed multispeciality hospital in Kolkata. The hospital provides inpatient and specialist care across a broad range of medical and surgical departments and operates 24-hour emergency and trauma services.

Clinical departments include cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, neurology and neurosurgery, gastroenterology, nephrology, urology, orthopaedics, respiratory medicine, paediatrics and general surgery. The general-surgery department lists upper gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, colorectal and laparoscopic procedures, including gastrectomy, Whipple surgery, liver resection and laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

The hospital's 24-hour support services include ambulance, blood centre, laboratory, radiology, operating theatre and pharmacy. The orthopaedics and traumatology department manages trauma, joint replacement, sports medicine, paediatric orthopaedics and spine conditions. It also describes the use of robotic technology, artificial-intelligence platforms and mixed reality for selected joint-replacement work.

The hospital's website describes a modular operation theatre complex with a laminar-airflow air-conditioning system and HEPA filters, seamless steel-panel construction, and sterile and unsterile zones separated by air-pressure gradients. Critical care is provided in a 30-bed ICCU and ITU with a 16-channel central monitoring system, provision for haemodialysis, CAPD and plasmapheresis, and four negative-pressure isolation cabins for infected patients.

Radiology facilities named on the site include a 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner, a multidetector CT scanner with CT virtual colonoscopy, and ultrasonography with colour Doppler and elastography. For overseas patients, the hospital lists a dedicated international helpdesk for visa invitation letters and appointments, airport pick-up and drop-off by ambulance on request, coordinators and relationship managers at points of service, and travel and ticket assistance through an arrangement with a travel company.

Anaesthesiology supports surgical specialties and also contributes to intensive care and emergency perioperative services. Peerless may therefore be relevant for patients who need complex surgery, cardiac or neurological care, oncology, renal treatment, gastrointestinal surgery, joint replacement or emergency treatment within a large multispeciality hospital in Kolkata.