His scholarship amounted to R 100,000 for his research work titled 'Epidemiology of Interpersonal Violence at a regional hospital Emergency Unit in the Eastern Cape South Africa'.

The Daily Dispatch premier newspaper of Eastern Cape delved into his thirty years of challenging work in trauma, violence and gender based sexual offenses.

[6] He was honoured on 30 June 2024 at Johannesburg by the Bengali Association of South Africa in presence of the Indian High Commissioner for his continuous work of more than thirty years in Mdantsane.

[8] Mitra headed the Thuthuzela Department for aiding and examining, collecting evidence from victims of rape and sexual assaults.

Such centres form a chain of twenty-four-hour stand-alone places throughout South Africa assisted by police personnel, national persecution authority and forensic experts.

[9] The Thuthuzela Centres for assisting victims of Rape and Sexual Assaults have gone in a crisis mode after President Donald Trump cutting of the USAID in South Africa.

A charcoal portrait of Cecilia Makiwane done by Mitra was exhibited at the Molly Blackburn Hall, University of Cape Town campus, on 19 September 2019.

[22] Mitra in an interview to Medbrief Africa mentioned, "Unfortunately, nobody's yet quantified the number of emergency healthcare workers who've succumbed to or suffered from burnout, but it's serious and way overdue -particularly among our youngsters."

Visualizing Poetry: Illuminating the Words[31] Amitabh Mitra was selected, and he performed at the Madibaland @ Bookbedonnerd World Literary Festival on 3 November 2022 09 am onwards[32] Amitabh Mitra and Zena Velloo John edited a book of poems titled, Anthology of Women Poets of India and South Africa, Feminism, Reflections in Contemporary Politics.

His close friendship with the Maratha royal families resulted in his drawing a series of watercolour involving poetry which he exhibited in South Africa and India.

A Slow Train to Gwalior is a coffee-table book of his art and poetry; a compact disc of his recitation with a backdrop of African traditional music was released by the Premier of Eastern Cape, Nosimo Balindlela, and a short documentary film on his Gwalior poetry was shown at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in 2009.

Such doctors and their families suffered a professional and social trauma and most of them decided to leave for the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada where they were welcomed and given the dignity they deserved.

The Mail and Guardian, South Africa's prominent newspaper mentioned that in spite of highly qualified doctors remaining within the country.

Dr Aron Motsoaldi, the national minister of health has commented there is no guarantee given for absorption of all doctors in the public funded hospitals.