Agartala, Jul 27, 2022, TRIPURATIMES Desk

ILS Hospital Agartala along with Tripura Hepatitis Foundation organized an awareness session on the occasion of World Hepatitis Day. 

Founder president of Hepatitis Foundation of Tripura Dr. Pradip Bhowmik and president Dr. N.L. Bhowmik were present in the session. 

Dr. Vikas Kohli, Gastroenterologist of ILS Hospital Agartala, held discussions on “Flares in Hepatitis B”. 

Dr Ashish Malakar (COO), Debashish Dhar (Group VP), Dr Yogesh Chandra (MS) and all the Consultants of ILS Hospitals Agartala were present in the awareness session.

World Hepatitis Day is celebrated on July 28 every year. The date 28th July was chosen for celebrating World Hepatitis Day to commemorate the birthday of Dr. Baruch Blumberg, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and developing a diagnostic test, as well as the first vaccine against the virus.