Indian Journal of ENT & Head–Neck Surgery · Perspective OPEN ACCESS ENT HEALTHCARE POLICY · INDIA The Silent Crisis: Closing India’s ENT Healthcare Gap Forty-three million Indians live with disabling hearing loss. Millions more bear the burden of chronic sinusitis, laryngeal disease, and head-and-neck malignancy — often in silence, often too late. A practising ENT surgeon examines the structural gaps, and argues for a framework that can actually close them. Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty | MS (ENT) · Senior Consultant, Head & Neck Surgery · Chennai April 2026 There is a particular kind of silence that follows a diagnosis delivered too late. I have sat across from patients — farmers from rural Tamil Nadu, factory workers from industrial Odisha, schoolchildren from the outskirts of cities with gleaming new hospitals — and delivered the news that what could have been ...
Dr.Mohanty's Speciality ENT Clinics
With more than 25 years of rich clinical experience in the field of EAR, NOSE, THROAT, HEAD & NECK ailments, it is supplemented by robust academic credentials too.