Dr. Sumita Saha, MBBS (Gold medallist), DCH (UK), MRCPCH (UK), is a Consultant Neonatologist and Paediatrician, practising in leading hospitals in Kolkata like Fortis Hospital (Anandapur), Woodlands Multispecialty Hospital, Asia-Columbia Hospital, Bellevue clinic and Mission of Mercy Hospital. Her Paediatric and Neonatal training took place in the U.K. where she worked for 8 years in renowned centres like Nottingham city Hospital, Leeds general infirmary etc.
She has independently managed many extremely premature babies of 23 weeks gestation and onwards – which means baby was in the mother’s womb for as little as 6 months – having birth weight even less than 500 grams in the UK. In Kolkata, many premature babies having birth weight of 600 grams, needing extensive intensive care support, have survived under her care. Dr Sumita Saha has worked in the field of Paediatrics, Neonatology and Paediatric intensive care in India and the UK for last 15 years, 8 years of that being in the UK....
Dr Saha received her medical degree from University of Calcutta after which she successfully completed MRCPCH and DCH from Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK.
Dr Saha is a Life member of Indian Academy of Pediatrics and National Neonatology Forum. She has served in various medical institutions in Kolkata.
Dr Saha has many research projects, presentations and dissertation to her credit. She also had participated in many surveys, audits and is actively involved in teaching at several institutions.
Dr Sumita Saha has worked in the field of Paediatrics, Neonatology and Paediatric intensive care in India and the UK for last 17 years, 8 years of that being in the UK.
She was an Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) provider in Europe, a Neonatal Life Support (NLS) provider and a Basic Life Support (BLS) provider in the UK.
She independently managed many extremely premature babies of 23 weeks gestation and onwards weighing even less than 500 gms in the UK. In Kolkata, many premature babies having birth weight of 600-700 gms, needing extensive intensive care support, have survived under her care. In Kolkata, many premature babies having birth weight of 600-700 gms, needing extensive intensive care support, have survived under her care.
She is competent in doing, interpreting and prognosticating neonatal cranial ultrasounds or scan of brain .
She is skilled to perform Echocardiography in Neonates to both identify common congenital heart lesions or birth defect of heart.
She has worked and trained in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Middlesborough, UK and Kolkata.
She has successfully managed many critical Paediatric patients including children with 70% burn, severe sepsis, complicated road traffic accidents etc. She has managed children with severe head injury with brain pressure monitoring which is only done in very advance center in UK or USA.
She has been actively involved in TOBY, a multi-centre, prospective, randomised study of term infants after peri-natal asphyxia. She is competent to provide intensive neuro-protection strategies including active cooling, use of CFAM etc.