Manipur doctor feature ‘among top six surgeons’ in healthcare magazine

Our Correspondent
Imphal, March 17 (EMN): Chairman-cum-Managing Director Dr. Khundongbam Palin of the Shija Hospitals in Manipur was listed among the top six surgeons in the Insights Care, a healthcare magazine in its latest edition of February 2019 titled “The Most Proficient Surgeons to Watch 2019.”
The other surgeons in the list included Dr. Nadeem Nivaz Jan, a consultant surgeon with main domain of interest in vascular surgery; Dr. Palin, a general surgeon and plastic surgery specialist; Dr. CS Ramachandran, a general and laparoscopic surgeon; Dr. Deepak Govil, surgical gastroenterologist; Dr. Raju Vaishya, orthopaedic surgeon; and Dr. Kawita Bapat, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Editor’s note of the magazine stated that pursuing surgery as a career is a daunting task. Surgeons often get yelled at by the patients’ family and also have to handle backlash of several patients, their families and friends. On numerous instances doctors have also suffered physical assault owing to this issue.

The magazine stated that Dr. Palin is an outstanding surgeon and a successful entrepreneur is set to change the medical conditions for the people of Myanmar.

Dr Palin bagged the degree of MBBS from RIMS, Manipur, and MS (General Surgery) and MCh (Plastic Surgery) from PGI Chandigarh.
He believes that “happiness is the only way to happiness. Unhappiness cannot solve our problems except draining our energy and enthusiasm. Unhappiness can be traced to the thinking of painful past experiences or the fear of the future. If we are conscious of our consciousness, we can remove these thoughts and be in the state of no thought but stillness or awareness at present. This is the time when we can innovate and succeed.”

In the 70s, Dr. Palin saw many patients from Manipur went to Dibrugarh and Alipore in Assam and CMC in Vellore for healthcare treatment. He realized the lack of trust in local healthcare facilities. To rectify this situation, he started Shija Clinic, attached to a pharmacy at Paona Bazar, Imphal, in 1985, with minor operation facility and a side laboratory.

Without delay, Shija became a leader in piles treatment in eastern India by providing non-operative piles treatment facilities. Today, Shija has become a 250-bedded NABH (Pre-Entry) super-specialty hospital, having 25 departments with 880 dedicated care givers and many others.