Former AIIMS manager Dr P Venugopal, a pioneer successful cardiac surgery, who conducted India’s archetypal bosom transplant and implicit 50,000 bosom surgeries successful his career, passed distant Tuesday.
Hailing from Rajahmundry successful Andhra Pradesh, Venugopal introduced precocious Western concepts of cardiac country successful the aboriginal 1970s successful India. In his four-decade-long tenure, helium headed the AIIMS cardiothoracic centre and aboriginal became its dean and director. The 82-year-old had a ringside presumption of immoderate of the astir impactful aesculapian and governmental developments of the time.
Dr Venugopal was honoured with the Padma Bhushan successful 1998 for his contributions to the tract of Medicine. In 2023, helium published his memoirs ‘Heartfelt’, co-authored with his woman Priya Sarkar. He volition beryllium cremated astatine Lodhi Road Crematorium astatine 3 p.m. connected Wednesday.
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