Dr. Rinku Sen Gupta Dhar  is one of the best Obstetrician and Gynaecologists in South Delhi with extensive experience in gynecological and endoscopic surgery, natural birthing and vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC).

Dr. Rinku’s skills in various gynecological surgeries for fibroids, polyps, abnormal uterine bleeding and ovarian cysts etc are known far and wide. Despite her knowledge and expertise, she has always maintained transparency with patients and their families and does not recommend surgery unless it is absolutely necessary.

Through her 25+ year long practice, she has headed various maternity initiatives and actively reduced not just her own cesarean rates but even those of the hospital where she worked. She played a key role in bringing down the cesarean section rate in the private sector for low-risk, first-birth mothers. She achieved success by establishing workshops and training colleagues and nurses in antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care. 

She has always led by example, be it in the labour room, where she held the hands of mothers as they endured labour or in the board room, where she advocated the rights of women to have a safe and positive delivery experience.

She continues to prepare mothers antenatally in group workshops by addressing their fear of normal delivery and instilling in them the confidence for a normal birth. 

She is a keen researcher with more than 25 publications to her credit.  She has been a co-investigator in various ICMR projects in maternity care.

Special Areas of Interest:

• Natural Birth
• Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section (VBAC)
• Menopausal Health
• Gynecological Cancers
• Hysteroscopy & Laparoscopy
• Non Descent Vaginal Hysterectomy

Awards 

• Awarded the Ranbaxy research award during post graduation at University College of Medical Sciences
• Conferred the Swaminathan Research award
• Selected as the finalist in BMJ Awards India in 2015 for reducing cesarean section rates in the private sector 

Memberships & Affiliations

• Active member of AOGD, NARCHI, DGFS
• Member of the Safe Motherhood Committee and Endoscopy committee AOGD 2021-2022
• Regular participant as faculty in workshops on CTG Training conducted by AOGD
• Active interest in Quality Improvement activities and have been a member of the National mentoring coach in Balrampur District hospital under the NQOCN (Nationwide Quality Improvement Network ) initiative

Publications

• Nikita Kumari, Neeru Jain ,Rinku Sen Gupta Dhar Effect of a locally tailored clinical pathway tool on VBAC outcomes in a private hospital in India Accepted for publication in JOGI (2021)
• Rationalising antibiotic use after vaginal deliveries in a hospital setting in India Under consideration for publication in BMJ Open Quality
• Reducing caesarean section rate in an urban hospital serving women attending privately in India – a quality improvement initiative Abhishek Bhartia, Rinku SenGupta Dhar, Saru Bhartia BMC Pregnancy and Child birth volume 20, Article number: 556 (2020)
• Nagpal, J, A Sachdeva, Rsengupta Dhar, V L Bhargava, A Bhartia "Widespread nonadherence to evidence based maternity care guidelines: a population‐based cluster randomised household survey." BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (2014)
• Sengupta Dhar, Rinku, and Renu Misra. "Postpartum uterine wound dehiscence leading to secondary PPH: unusual sequelae." Case reports in obstetrics and gynecology 2012 (2012)
• Dhar, Rinku Sengupta, and Vijay laxmi Bhargava. "Missed Diagnosis of Cesarean Scar Pregnancy: A Growing Reality." Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 5.1 (2010): 49-52