Joint Replacement Specialty is run and managed by a team of highly experienced and qualified doctors and technical health service providers. This unit is headed by Dr. (Brig) BK Singh.


Dr.(Brig.) B.K. Singh served in the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services and specialized in doing Joint replacement Surgery. He had the distinction of introducing Joint Replacement Surgery facility (JRC) at Army Hospital (Research and Referral), New Delhi. He initiated the idea in 1993 and created an Ultra Modern World Class thirty beded specialized Joint Replacement Center “JRC” in 1997. 


This is the only dedicated center for Joint Replacement Surgery of Indian Defense Services and is equipped with Laminar Airflow Theaters having the largest inventory of OT instruments, Post Operative Intensive Care Units, Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy. JRC is the “foremost and the distinctive center of its kind in India equipped with Navigation and Robot Assisted Joint Replacement Surgery till now set up in 2003 under Dr. B.K. Singh’s supervision.


Robot assisted knee and hip replacements ensure 99.98% accuracy in replacement and alignment of joints. Dr. B.K. Singh is the only trained surgeon in India hitherto. 

Dr. B.K. Singh has a series of more than 5000 arthroplasties to his credit and pioneered different types of Arthroplasties in India during his 15 years leading career of “JRC”. He is the only joint replacement surgeon who has the distinction in introducing and successfully doing following specialized joints in India.


  i) Uni Condylar Knee Replacement in1996
  ii) Resurfacing Hip Arthroplasty in 1997
  iii) Thrust plate prosthesis THR in 1997
  iv) Total Ankle Replacement in 2001
  v) Robotic Total Hip Replacement in 2003
  vi) Robotic Total Knee Replacement in 2005
  vii) Resurfacing Shoulder Arthroplasty (Copeland) in 2007

Know More about Dr (Brig) BK Singh

Brig (Retd.) Dr. B K Singh, SM, VSM 
MS (Surgery), MS (Ortho)
Director - Orthopaedics
Senior Consultant, Joint Replacement Surgery
Artemis Health Institute
Sector – 51, Gurgaon

Dr. B.K. Singh has vast experience of Revision Arthroplasty Surgeries of Knee and Hip joints using wide a range of implants including constrained and Rotating Hinge Knees and Cemented and Uncemented revision hip implants such as CRC and Wagner. He has carried out a number of surgeries in cases of Gun shot wounds and tumours around the hip and knee joints using modular resection implants. 

Dr BK Singh earned his graduation (MBBS) in 1972 and master degree; Master of Surgery in 1981 and Master of Orthopaedics in 1987 from the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India. He has Super Specialty training in Joint Replacement Surgery from Institute of Orthopaedics, The Robert Johes and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Oswestry, (UK) in 1991-1993 and since then he has been exclusively working in the field of Joint Replacement Surgery. He got advanced training on Navigation and Robot Assisted Joint Replacement Surgery at Osaka, Japan in 2003.

Dr.(Brig.) B.K. Singh has earned many commendations for his dedicated and professional work in the Armed Forces :-

1. In Establishing medical facilities including operation theater at Dakshin Gangothri - the first Indian Station in Antarctica – 1983-1984. 
2. Established Mobile Field Hospitals, including operation theaters in Siachen Glacier (1984-1985) and inSri Lanka during operations (1987). 
3. Awarded Sena Medal (Gallantry) in 1985 for rescuing and treating victims of Helicopter Crash in Sea while at Antartica with 3rd Indian expedition. 
4. Awarded GOC-inC (Trg Comd) Commendation in 2001. 
5. Awarded Chief of Army Staff Commendation in 2004. 
6. Awarded Vishist Sewa Medal (VSM) in 2005 by President of India for outstanding contribution in the field of Joint Replacement Surgery. 
7. Awarded Commendation by Director General coast Guard in 2006. 

Dr. B.K. Singh is Post Graduate teacher and Examiner for MS Ortho and (DNB Orth.) in Delhi University and Pune University. As a trained paratrooper he significantly contributed his Expertise of War Surgery in different hospitals of Indian Army at major orthopaedic centers (1987 – 1997) including 92 Base Hospital (Srinagar), MH Kirkee and Base Hospital, Delhi. Dr. B.K. Singh has lead Medical Team third Indian expedition to Antarctica in 1984 as a General Surgeon and established front line Operation Theater during operation in Sri Lanka.

Earlier to Artemis Hospital as Director - Orthopaedics & Joint Replacement Surgery. Dr. B.K. Singh held the eminent positions with Harkrishan Manipal Hospital, New Delhi as Director – Medical Services, BL Kapoor Memorial Hospital, Delhi as Chairman – Orthopaedics and Senior Consultant, Joint Replacement Surgery – Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. 

Membership and Awards

Memberships

• President, Delhi Orthopaedic Association (DOA) 2004
• Life Member of Indian Arthroplasty Association
• Life member Indian Orthopaedic Association
• Life Member Association Surgeons of India (Armed Forces Chapter)
• Teacher and Post Graduate examiner Pune University, Delhi University, DNB (Ortho)

Awards

• Awarded Vishist Sewa Medal (VSM) in 2005 by President of India for outstanding contribution in the field of Joint Replacement Surgery.

News - Joint Replacement in India

SUNDAY SENTIMENTS
by Karan Thapar
Doctors with A difference
 
AND How’s the young Indy this evening? “It was Col. Mukherjee. His cheerful greeting was aimed at Mummy as he entered the ICU at the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital. “Come off it.“ she replied. But she wasn’t being dismissive. She was pleased and bashful. Yet a moment before Mummy had seemed downcast. Twenty-four hours earlier she had fractured her hip and the operation that followed had been tricky. At 88, general anesthesia is not an easy option. Now Col. Mukherjee had made her smile.

“You’re looking twenty years younger than this morning.” He reached out to hold her hand but before he could she raised it to pat his cheek. Mummy adores flattery. Watching from outside I realized how lucky she was to be in the hands of such doctors. A patient-in-need cannot judge the quality of the diagnosis but the care and attention is easy to evaluate. Nothing is so reassuring as a doctor’s manner. It’s almost half the battle.

The R&R has more doctors-who-care than any hospital I’ve been to. Like everywhere else they’re short-staffed and rushed off their feet but they still make time to explain, understand and sympathies.

Mummy passed through the hands of many of them. First there was Brigadier B.K. Singh, the Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon. He had the daunting task of explaining to three anxious daughters and one overbearing son what the option were and the risks associated with them. Each of us had different, often contradictory, questions but he patiently answered all of them and convinced us that his original suggestion was the right one. He even lot us watch the operation on the television in his office. I found it macabre but mesmerizing. Finally, when he wheeled her out of the operating theatre and into the ICU he signaled with his left hand all was well, I know he meant it.

Whilst Mummy was in the ICU I would visit late at night to check on her, I knew it was flagrant violation of the hospital’s rules so on the first night I crept in ready to be repulsed and sent back. Sister Asha confronted me at the door I froze.

“You’re late, “she said. I was flummoxed. What on earth did she mean? “Your mother had a feeling you would come and kept awake for you. Quickly see her so we can get her to sleep.”

I felt certain this had been said to reassure me and it gave me the excuse I needed to return each night.

At first it might seem odd that Army doctors should be so sensitive and thoughtful. After all, those aren’t qualities one associate with solders. But I soon discovered how wrong those perceptions are. The toughness of a solder’s execrator is not false or skin deep yet there’s more to him than that. Solders are tough because they understand human weak nose. It’s an oxymoron that conveys the truth.

There’s also a second explanation – the R&R is not a commercial hospital. It doesn’t exist to make money. And whilst I know private hospitals do more than realize profits, the fact that profit comes into their calculations seems to affect the relationship with their patients. That simply isn’t the case here, So when an Army doctor spends hours explaining little things- or you accost him and take up his tine – the one thing that never occurs to you is that could end up paying for it.

It make all the difference.