In those years, he also undertook close to 15,000 laparoscopic tubectomies across the villages around Buldhana \u2014 a figure that places him among the quiet architects of family planning in rural Maharashtra. He began his private practice in parallel in 1984, and built his own nursing home in Buldhana a decade later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 1980s were years in which Indian medicine stood at a crossroads between its colonial inheritance of teaching hospital medicine and the reality that most of the country’s population was served by district facilities with limited resources and no referral backup. Vinay’s work in Buldhana was shaped entirely by the second reality. He chose to stay where he was needed, not where he might have been more comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Dr. Vinay Ubarhande, surgeon in Buldhana and alumnus of GMC Nagpur (1973 batch), with his wife Sadhana and sons Abhishek and Prateek. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Navjeevan, and a Medical Household<\/h3>\n\n\n
Vinay’s nursing home in Buldhana operates under the name Navjeevan \u2014 new life \u2014 and the name has held through four decades. His wife Sadhana practices Homeopathy, a distinction she shares with the wives of two other GMC 1973 classmates: Hamida Waqar Taji and Sangeeta Hari Paranjape. Their household, in this respect, models the kind of professional plurality that is common in small-town medical families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His two sons, Abhishek and Pratik, are both orthopaedic surgeons \u2014 a second generation drawn to surgery, though to a subspecialty their father’s era had neither the infrastructure nor the training pathways to support. Abhishek trained at Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, and married Dr. Priyanka Marathe, an ophthalmologist. Pratik trained at BJ Medical College, Pune, and married Tejaswini Patil, a gynaecologist. Both couples married in July 2018, a coincidence the family notes with some amusement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What the District Demanded<\/h3>\n\n\n
The generation that came out of GMC Nagpur in the late 1970s entered a public health system that was overstretched, underequipped, and dependent on individual commitment to function at all. Vinay Ubarhande joined that system in the district that had produced him, operated on its emergencies, performed its sterilisations, and eventually built his own facility when the public system could no longer contain his practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has remained in Buldhana. The nursing home on Suvarna Nagar, near Ganesh Temple, still carries his name, still receives his patients. The fifteen thousand tubectomies are not counted anywhere official. He does not count them himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"