Dr Venugopal: King of 50,000 hearts
`If reborn, I want to come back and work at AIIMS,` these were the parting words of P Venugopal , the outgoing Director of the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, the country’s premier medical institute located in Delhi.The 66-year-old cardiac surgeon, whose tenure at AIIMS ended on July 2, 2008, has devoted about 49 years of his life for the institute.
`If reborn, I want to work for AIIMS again`
The eminent surgeon, who had been locked in a bitter turf war with Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, specially since the 2006 anti-reservation agitation in AIIMS, was ousted in November 2007. He was reinstated as Director by the Supreme Court on May 8 after passing a legislation in the Parliament fixing the age of the AIIMS head at 65 years.
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Dr Venugopal is something of a medical prodigy. He has donned the hat of a keen researcher, besides excelling in his chosen field — cardio-thoracic surgery. To him goes the credit of having performed India’s first heart transplant as far back as in 1994. Since then, he has been associated with over 50,000 open-heart surgeries.
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This post was written by techhair on July 6, 2008
