Gouri Devi Hospital and Research Institute, Bidhanagar

Gouri Devi Hospital and Research Institute is a super-speciality hospital on GT Road (NH-2) at Rajbandh in Durgapur, West Bengal, built around neurosciences and spine surgery.The neurosurgical range is wide for a hospital outside the metros: neurotrauma surgery, neurospine and spine surgery, neurovascular surgery, microsurgery, head and neck surgery, and minimally invasive spine surgery, in which the spine is reached through small incisions rather than a long open approach. Neurology, neuropsychiatry, and spine and pain medicine run alongside, with nerve pain treated as a distinct service.Children are covered separately through paediatric neurology, neuropaediatric surgery and neurodevelopmental disabilities - services that are scarce across most of western West Bengal and that families would otherwise travel to Kolkata for.Rehabilitation is treated as part of the pathway rather than an afterthought: spinal rehabilitation, spinal cord injury treatment, physiotherapy for neurological disorders, and neuropathy assessment to establish where nerve damage lies before treatment is planned.Accident and trauma care and cardiac surgery are also provided.The hospital is located on GT Road, National Highway 2, Rajbandh, Durgapur 713212. The highway frontage matters for a trauma and neurosurgical centre: it places the hospital directly on the route that generates much of the head and spine injury it treats, and keeps it reachable from Durgapur, Andal, Panagarh, Asansol and the districts of Bankura and Birbhum.