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๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐——๐—ฟ. ๐— ๐—ถ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ

๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐——๐—ฟ. ๐— ๐—ถ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ A fortnight ago, Dr. Mihir Wechalekar, an alumnus of MGIMS, class of 1992, received the prestigious 2024 Mid-Career Excellence Award in Australia. This honour was bestowed upon him at the combined New Zealand Australian Rheumatology Association Annual Scientific Meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand. This …

MGIMS Obituary Sevagram

Dhirubhai Mehta

(1936-2024) It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Dhirubhai Mehta, President of Kasturba Health Society, Sevagram, who left us this morning. He was just about to turn 88 this weekend. Born on April 27, 1936, in Songadh, a village 28 km west of Bhavnagar, Gujarat, Dhirubhai came from a middle-class family. …

MGIMS Sevagram

Stepping Down…

This morning, I hung up my boots and stepped down as the Medical Superintendent (MS) of MGIMS Hospital. Twelve years ago, I reluctantly took on this role. As a physician-teacher with no prior management experience, the early days were daunting. It felt like being thrust into Test cricket at Sabina Park without ever having played …

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Dr KV Desikan

Dr K.V. Desikan,  a legend in leprosy, passed away on 23rd October, 2022. He was ninety six. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Dr. Desikan invested considerable effort and time trying to understand the mystery that shrouds leprosy. He began working in an area few others cared about. Leprosy, in the early fifties, …

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Dr BC Harinath

The passing away of Dr BC Harinath evokes so many memories. He came to Sevagram in 1970, fresh with a PhD in Biochemistry from the USA. Sevagram was a small village then and young Harinath had trouble adjusting to Sevagram. The first batch of medical students had arrived only a year ago and Dr Harinath …

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Covid and Sevagram

Exactly a year ago, on this very date, a 64-year-old person arrived in the repurposed Covid block of Sevagram. He hailed from Washimโ€”a town 225 km south-west of Sevagramโ€”tested positive in the neighbouring medical school and was admitted to what was once a Medicine ICU. He was the first patient in our Covid ICU, the …

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Dr KK Aggarwal

On May 5,1982, on a hot afternoon, I entered the MGIMS medicine ward in Sevagram. Unlike the noisy government medical college, Nagpur where I was trained, this hospital sounded remarkably calm and tranquil. I ran into an unkempt resident in the medical ward doing a pleural tap at the patientโ€™s bedside. With a stethoscope hanging …