| Dr. R. Purkayastha, Principal in Charge | | Dr. Sekhar Chakravarthy, Prof. and Head, Dept. of Pathology and Principal Investigator | | Dr. D. Dutta, Asst. Professor of Pathology and Co-Principal Investigator |
| | Silchar Medical College a premier undergraduate and post-graduate teaching institute is located in southern Assam at the foothills of Borail hill range of the eastern Himalayas in the town of Silchar, which is called the gateway to the states of Mizoram, Tripura & Manipur. Silchar town forms the eastern most point of the `Golden Quadrilateral'- the dream National superhighway project. The various departments of the 850 bedded Silchar Medical College & Hospital cater health care facilities to the population of Barak Valley region of Assam and adjoining states of Tripura, Manipur Mizoram as well as some areas of neighbouring Bangladesh. Under the leadership of the present Principal (I/c), Dr. R.Purkayastha, the staff members of the institute strive hard to meet the needs of suffering as well as upholding the standards of medical education and service with available resources. The department of Pathology of the college is well equipped and housed in a three storied building with its various divisions. There are six faculty members, five demonstrators and fourteen medical laboratory technicians under the leadership of Dr.Sekhar Chakravarthy, Professor & Head of the department. It imparts undergraduate teaching in Pathology, medical laboratory technician training course and collaborates with the Post-graduate thesis works of the clinical post-graduate departments. Apart from routine biopsy examination, the Histopathology division carries out autopsies. The haematology division has facilities for coagulation study, nutritional and hemolytic anemia profile and cytochemistry for leukemia. Cytology division deals in exfoliative cytology, fluid cytology and FNAC including CT guided ones. Clinical pathology conducts routine investigations on all in-patients and out-patients of the hospitals. The department is also nvolved in different research projects of local importance. The department under Dr. Sekhar Chakravathy, Professor & Head, as the Principal Investigator and Dr. D. Dutta, Asst. Professor, as the Co-Investigator, has been selected by ICMR as one of the participating centres for the projects, `Development of an Atlas of Cancer in India' and `Population Based Cancer Registry (PBCR) in Silchar Town'. The staffs of the `PBCR' in Silchar Town consist of one statistician and one Social Investigator at present. Both the projects have made significant progress in the fulfillment of their objectives.
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