Activities Report, Operation Straight Spine, 2017

Ramakrishna Mission Hospital, Kolkata, India January 21- February 04, 2017 by Jeff McConnell, MD Team Members for OSS 2017: INDIA: Ujjwal K Debnath, FRCS – Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon UK:     Neena Seth – Consultant Anaesthesia Meera Alexander – Consultant Anaesthesia Priya Krishnan – Consultant Anaesthesia Lucy Dancy – Consultant Anaesthesia Kerry …

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Mission Tie-Up for Spine Treatment: The Telegraph, 2006

Issue Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Mission tie-up for spine treatment A STAFF REPORTER A state-of-the-art spine treatment centre, with equipment worth $5 million, has been set up at Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan, in collaboration with Pennsylvania Spine and Scoliosis Institute, Medtronic Spine and Biologics and University Hospital of Wales. …

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OSS Feature in The Telegraph, Calcutta, India

OSS was featured in an article which appeared in The Telegraph, Calcutta, India, November 26, 2007. Latest aid for spine therapy A “state-of-the art” spine treatment centre — with equipment worth $5 million — will be set up at Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan, in collaboration with experts from the US …

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Operation Straight Spine featured in Becker’s Spine Review

Operation Straight Spine Provides Spine Care to Needy Patients in the Third World Each year, Jeffrey McConnell, MD, and a team of approximately 10 nurses, anesthesiologists, neuromonitoring technicians and spine surgeons visit Kolkata, India, to treat underprivileged children and adults with spinal diseases and deformities. Dr. McConnell is co-founder of …

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Emirates Airline Foundation Sponsors Operation Straight Spine

Operation Straight Spine: scoliosis surgeries for patients in need The Emirates Airline Foundation sponsored US-based organisation Operation Straight Spine on their recent mission to provide spinal surgeries to patients in need in Kolkata, India. Operation Straight Spine provides spinal surgeries and medical services to socially deprived and underprivileged individuals who …

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Operation Straight Spine featured on Spine-Health

Operations Straight Spine was featured in the Project Summary section of Spine-Health.com Project summary: Establishing a charitable mission project to provide spinal disease and deformity treatment for the poor and under-served in India. Featured Spine-health.com Member: Dr. Jeffrey R. McConnell Overview Establishing a charitable mission project to provide spinal disease …

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2006 British Orthopaedic Association Newsletter

British Orthopaedic Association Newsletter “OPERATION STRAIGHT SPINE” – a project for underprivileged in India In Nov 2006, two surgeons, Dr Jeffrey R. McConnell, MD, Consultant Spine Surgeon from OAA Orthopaedic Specialists, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA and Mr Ujjwal K Debnath, FRCS, MS (Orth), Senior Registrar, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK …

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Indian Express – Kolkata News Online

INDIAN EXPRESS – KOLKATA NEWS ONLINE 3rd December 2006, Sunday Back straight, head held high NRI surgeon Ujjwal Debnath comes to his home town to perform spinal surgery free for the needy, finds our correspondent Pragya Paramita Sixty-year-old Nibha Rani Dey’s eyes light up when she spots the familiar figure …

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