Being a doctor is more than a job; it is a divine calling to serve as God’s healing tool. God’s realm is healing, and doctors are conduits for God’s healing power to reach the sick and afflicted. Doctors fight against the clock to defy the odds, work unusual hours, and continue to bring joy to many people. Every doctor is regarded as a hero, regardless of their specialty. They have magical hands and will continue to serve the people as God’s angels.

Today we are in a conversation with the very prominent and award-winning cardiologist Dr Anupam Jena, Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist in KIIMS. 

Dr. Anupam Jena is an Interventional Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences in Bhubaneswar. He did his MBBS from SCB Medical College, Cuttack. Then, at that point, he finished his DM in Cardiology from PGI Chandigarh. After his DM he accepted his preparation in Seoul, South Korea. Dr Jena has some expertise in the treatment of heart mood issues and percutaneous coronary and non-coronary strategies. In his years as a Cardiologist, he has helped a few patients. Dr Anupam was granted the “Youthful Investigator Award” in Seoul, South Korea and that is one of the great places in his vocation.

Medical studies encompass science, methodology, realism, patience, individuality, and compassion. Getting into medical school is challenging, rigorous, tough, and every other word for difficult all rolled into one. It may be difficult but not impossible. 

Dr Anupam Jena being the first Cardiac Electrophysiologist in Odisha make our state people proud and happy at the same time. He is very dedicated to his work, his theorems and regulation. He thanked KIIMS for assisting and making his ideas huge. He also thanked Prof. Dr Achyuta Samanta for trusting his ideas, and ambitions and giving him the needful instruments and workspace that Mr Jena wanted. Being an eminent cardiologist he says, research is very important in every field of work. they have many ongoing projects like genetic studies to clinical studies, from designing instruments to publishing important papers in the Indian Journal of electrophysiology. Many of his works got high appreciation nationally as well as internationally. 

Life can never be planned it can only be invested according to the plan. Mr Jena always wanted to be a poet, as he grew up in certain surroundings where his father was into English Literature, mother loved reading books. He was surrounded by many books and that is what inspired him to be a poet. But with time he got into medicine and proved himself as a perfect intellectual. Life in medicine is as bitter as a chemical solution, focusing on the healthcare sector can be inspiring and tough too. Odisha is such an on-ground state where we have seen multiple systems of work when it comes to healthcare. May it be pre-pandemic or post-pandemic our system has to stand on a goal of improving the state’s health condition. Dr Anupam says the state’s health status is named to be good as we can see many government facilities are being provided to the people who cannot afford huge prices. We can also see rapid growth in the health statistics as people are being cured very fast. Secondly, our state has been equipped with various medical devices, by which at the time of emergency we are not willing to depend on some other state. 

As I said before a doctor is a patient’s person, and treating a patient is a prayer. Dr Jena knows how to manage the patient more than treat the disease. He believes that the patient’s first sight needs to be emergently positive, which can help him to treat the problem more efficiently. He believes in prepping himself before handling organs like the heart, and with that, he makes sure with full transparency that how the treatment process would go on. ‘I treat the patient, not the disease’, says Dr Anu.

INTERVIEWED BY- PRISITA DAS