In Dhupguri, a town in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district at the gateway to the Dooars, there is a doctor whose clinic is open seven days a week, morning to night, and whose patient list spans 25 years and 50,000 encounters. Dr. Debashish Roy founded Dr. Debashish Roy's Child Care and Allergy-Asthma Center on Santiniketan Road because he understood that the children of the Dooars region deserved access to the same specialist paediatric, allergy, and pulmonology expertise that was available in Siliguri and Kolkata, without families needing to make that journey. What makes Dr. Roy exceptional in Dhupguri is not only the four post-graduate qualifications he holds, each earned after his MD in Paediatrics through dedicated training at MedTrain, Bengaluru, but the fact that every one of those qualifications serves a child who walks into his clinic with a problem that would have gone unaddressed a generation ago.
A Career Built Around One Region's Children
Dr. Roy completed his MBBS at Kolkata Medical College in 2001 and his MD in Paediatrics at AIMS Bengaluru under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in 2010. Rather than building a career in a metropolitan centre, he returned to West Bengal to serve the children of the Dooars, a region known for its tea gardens, dense forests, and river plains, but not historically known for specialist medical care. His subsequent advanced training has been systematic and purposeful. In 2024, he completed the Allergy Asthma Specialist Course (AASC). In 2025, the Fellowship in Advanced Allergy Procedures (FAAP), which trained him specifically in skin prick testing, allergen challenge procedures, and immunotherapy administration. And in 2026, the International Certification in Paediatric Pulmonology (ICCP), adding objective lung function assessment and systematic respiratory evaluation to his clinical toolkit. Three years of consecutive post-graduate specialty training after 14 years of clinical practice represents a doctor who does not consider his education complete, and for the families of Dhupguri and the wider Dooars region, that commitment has direct clinical consequences.
What FAAP and ICCP Mean for Children in the Dooars
Before Dr. Roy established his allergy and asthma centre, a child in Dhupguri with recurrent wheezing and uncontrolled allergic rhinitis had limited options. A general paediatrician could prescribe antihistamines and a salbutamol nebuliser. What was not available locally was skin prick testing to identify which specific allergens were driving the symptoms, spirometry to objectively measure how obstructed the airways were, or allergen immunotherapy, the only treatment that actually changes the underlying sensitisation rather than simply suppressing its symptoms. The FAAP qualification means Dr. Roy can perform these advanced allergy procedures in his Dhupguri clinic. The ICCP means that the spirometry results he generates are interpreted by a clinician with internationally certified pulmonological training, not estimated from symptoms alone. For a child with house dust mite allergy and persistent asthma in a tea garden household, this is the difference between being told to avoid dust (which is impossible) and receiving a personalised immunotherapy protocol that reduces their sensitivity to dust mite allergen over the course of treatment. Allergy immunotherapy is the closest thing modern medicine has to treating the cause of allergic disease rather than its symptoms, and it is now available in Dhupguri.
Consulting Dr. Debashish Roy in the Dooars
Dr. Roy consults at his Child Care and Allergy-Asthma Center on Santiniketan Road, Dhupguri, from Monday to Sunday, 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM, and at Basak Medical Hall, Birpara Tea Garden, from Monday to Sunday, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. For families across Dhupguri, Birpara, Jalpaiguri, the tea garden estates, and the surrounding Dooars region, Dr. Roy offers the most comprehensively trained paediatric allergy, asthma, and pulmonology expertise available locally, combining the clinical breadth of 25 years of general paediatric practice with the specialist depth of three advanced allergy and pulmonology certifications earned in consecutive years.
To book a paediatric, allergy, or pulmonology consultation with Dr. Debashish Roy at Dr. Debashish Roy's Child Care and Allergy-Asthma Center, Santiniketan Road, Dhupguri, West Bengal 735210 (Monday to Sunday, 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM) or at Basak Medical Hall, Birpara Tea Garden, West Bengal 735204 (Monday to Sunday, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM), call +91 9732822677 or visit linqmd.com/doctor/debashish-roy
Written by Dr. Debashish Roy, MBBS, MD (Paediatrics), AASC (Allergy Asthma Specialist Course), FAAP (Fellowship in Advanced Allergy Procedures), ICCP (International Certification in Paediatric Pulmonology), Senior Consultant Pediatrician, Allergy and Asthma Specialist, Pediatric Pulmonologist and Immunologist, Founder, Dr. Debashish Roy's Child Care and Allergy-Asthma Center, Ward No. 12, Madhyaara, Santiniketan Road, Purba Daukimari, Dhupguri, West Bengal 735210 (Monday to Sunday, 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM). Also at Basak Medical Hall, Birpara Tea Garden, West Bengal 735204 (Monday to Sunday, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM). 25+ years. 50,000+ patients. Phone: +91 9732822677 / 9332050468.
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