10 medical doctors gained Padma Awards in 2021 in the subject of Medicine. Among 10 doctors, 1 doctor has obtained Padma Vibhushan & nine conferred Padma Shree awards. Padma Award turned into began out withinside the 12 months of 1954. This year in 2021, total 120 individuals have obtained Padma Award at numerous subject. The highest civilian awards in India are Bharat Ratna accompanied through Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. It is given through the Government of India at the Republic Day of every year to the person or organization of people for their remarkable achievement in a particular subject.

List of Padma Awardees in the subject of Medicine-2021

Padma Vibhushan

Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde, Medicine, Karnataka

Padma Shri

Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal, Medicine, Punjab
Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav, Medicine, Delhi
Dr. J N Pande (Posthumous), Medicine, Delhi
Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi, Medicine, Odisha
Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo, Medicine, Kerala
Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay, Medicine, Uttarakhand
Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh, Medicine, Bihar
Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Posthumous), Medicine, Tamil Nadu

Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde, Cardiologist from Karnataka (Padma Vibhushan)

Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde is popularly referred to as B.M. Hegde is a main cardiologist, author & educator from the nation of Karnataka (Udupi). He turned into born in 1938 at Pangala, Udupi. He has performed his MBBS from Madras, MD from Lucknow, MRCP from U.K., FRCP from London, FRCP from Edinburgh, FRCP from Glasgow, FRCPI from Dublin and FACC from the USA. He has forty seven years of coaching revel in in Medical colleges. Hegde turned into related to Manipal University and labored there as Vice-Chancellor. He turned into Independent Director of Zydus. He has served as editor in lots of journals, posted 289 studies paper & 37 books in English & Kannada & he is the first Indian examiner for the MRCP exam in the UK for 10 years. This year Dr. Hegde has conferred with India’s second-highest civilian award- Padma Vibhushan. Before that, he turned into offered in the class of an Eminent Medical Teacher in 1999 with Dr. B. C. Roy National Award, Dr. J. C. Bose Award for Life Sciences Research, Padma Bhushan in 2010 and plenty of greater. He is well-known for his studies for curing malaria in 3 days through the usage of silver nanoparticles infused with water and a idea of ‘quantum healing’ through which a sick person can carry lower back to normal.

Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal, Orthopaedician from Punjab (Padma Shri)

Famous Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal with greater than 50 yrs of revel in is thought for free Clubfoot surgeries. Dr. Mittal is globally regarded for his New Surgical Concept of correction in severest of intense clubfoot deformity, through 4 surgical pores and skin increasing incision, four plastic surgical procedure strategies in a single incision. He is doing all different varieties of orthopaedic surgical procedure additionally e.g. sports activities injuries, different trauma, polio, spastics, backbone etc. Dr. Mittal operating as a journeying Professor in Singapore, Indonesia and Canada & New Zealand & extensively travelled to USA, Canada, European & Asian international locations for academics. Now he’s walking Mittal Orthopaedic Centre at Patiala, Punjab. Formerly Dr. Mittal labored as a Professor withinside the Orthopaedic branch for 20 years &then Principal in Govt. Medical College Patiala and Director of Medical Education Punjab Chandigarh.

Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav, Community Medicine from Delhi (Padma Shri)

Popularly referred to as “Iodine Man of India”, Dr. Chandrakant S. Pandav is a Former Professor & HOD of Community Medicine at AIIMS, New Delhi. He finished his MBBS after which MD from AIIMS, Delhi in Community Medicine after which M.Sc. from McMaster University Hamilton, Canada. Dr. Pandav is the Co-Editor of 14 books on Health Sciences and authored approximately four hundred studies papers posted in numerous National and International Journals. Dr. Pandav turned into a representative on Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) considering 1983 to over 60 international locations. Dr. Pandav turned into Advisory Board Member of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), NITI Aayog, Iodine Global Network (IGN) and numerous others National and International bodies. Excellent paintings withinside the vicinity of Universal Salt Iodization, Dr. Pandav turned into offered the Mother Teresa Memorial Award in Kolkata on December 2016. In 2017, Dr. Pandav turned into bestowed the WHO Public Health Champion award for his lengthy and sustained contribution to public fitness. Dr. Pandav has many awards and honours to his call, which include the maximum prestigious Dr. M. K. Seshadri Prize & Gold Medal through Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), for the 12 months 2000 for his notable contributions to the sector of Community Medicine. He has gained numerous awards and reputation from international Institutes for his paintings on iodine deficiency.

Dr. J N Pande (Late), Pulmonologist from Delhi (Padma Shri)

Another AIIMS health practitioner from Delhi got the Padma Shri award this 12 months. Dr. Pande turned into born in Uttar Pradesh at the Firozabad district. Dr Jitendra Nath turned into an eminent pulmonologist and previous HOD of Medicine at AIIMS in Delhi. Dr. Jitendra had died because of Covid 19 on the age of seventy nine on May 23rd during sleep whilst he turned into domestic quarantined in New Delhi. He turned into the Personal health practitioner to the President of India and plenty of different well-known personalities like Raj Kapoor, Rangarajan Kumaramangalam etc. He joined AIIMS as a MBBS scholar and retired from the placement of HOD of Medicine. Dr. Pande turned into a splendid clinician, trainer & remarkable man or women to his students & sufferers. He knew for his punctuality & repairing medical instruments by his own. People known as him an encyclopaedia of medication. Dr. Pande posted greater than a hundred and seventy papers in countrywide and worldwide journals, particularly centered on lung mechanics in health & disease, exercise physiology, interstitial lung disorder, air sacs, & high-altitude physiology.

Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi, Orthopaedician from Odisha (Padma Shri)

83-12 months-vintage Great Orthopaedician, Dr Pathi is referred to as a Messiah for the Poor humans and runs a charitable business enterprise with the call of Bharadwaj Gurukul Ashram in which he affords unfastened fitness care services (unfastened medicinal drug and injections, bone marrow check etc.) to tribal in a village close by Berhampur in Ganjham district, Odisha for greater than 30 years. He medically skilled from SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack and did MS from England. Dr. Pathi labored in Oxford University for 3 years and travelled substantially to greater than 22 international locations for instructional cause. Dr. Pathi still recalls the letter of his father in which he counseled him to return back from overseas and serve to poor people in Odisa. Then Dr Pathi again to India and joined as a trainer of medication in a scientific college; after that, he turned into the HOD of Orthopaedics Surgery & Principal at VSS Medical College at Burla and Superintendent-cum-Principal at MKCG Medical College in Berhampur. Dr Krishna Pathi lives at Aravinda Nagar close to bus stand of Berhampore on the equal residence which turned into constructed through his father. He has one daughter who’s a health practitioner in profession & staying in overseas & one son who’s an engineer operating in Delhi. Prof. Krishna Mohan Pathi is likewise regarded for his contribution to sickle cell disease in lots of countries. He is the first health practitioner in Odisha is offered through Padma Shri.

Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo, General Physician from Kerala (Padma Shri)

A health practitioner from Nagpur, Maharashtra, who made Wayand his 2d domestic considering closing forty years. Newly graduated younger health practitioner Dhananjay Diwakar Sagdeo got here to Muttil the backward village of Wayanad district, Kerala on the age of 24 withinside the 12 months of 1980. Dr Diwakar Sagdeo turned into born in Nagpur below a middle-magnificence own circle of relatives. He finished MBBS on the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH). After finishing MBBS, he determined with the foundation of RSS to paintings for the terrible humans. He got here to realize approximately the small health facility run through Swami Vivekananda Medical Mission at Muttil and determined to paintings there & began out serving in a one-guy scientific facility in a one-room dispensary-cum-house in hilly Muttil. Initial days have been now no longer smooth for Dr. Sagdeo to study Malayalam and persuade the tribal humans however these days, the tribal of this vicinity, do not forget Dr Sagdeo subsequent to God regardless of their faith and belief. The one-room dispensary has now transformed right into a full-fledged, 35-mattress health facility with 3 full-time scientific officers, journeying professionals and different cutting-edge facilities. Dr Sagdeo is married with Sujata Gurjar, who turned into born and taken up in Kerala. Dr. has daughters, — Aditi and Gayatri. Gayatri is a health practitioner and now works together along with her father withinside the equal health facility & Aditi is an engineer, is living in Nagpur after married. Dr. Sagdeo’s maximum enormous contribution has been the paintings performed for Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) disorder amongst tribal. Dr Sagdeo on the age of 64, nevertheless walking the Swami Vivekananda Medical Mission health facility & affords unfastened remedy to tribal & terrible humans.

Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu, Medicine from Uttar Pradesh (Padma Shri)

Cases of melancholy are growing in runaway existence. All the teenagers are in its grip. Loneliness is likewise a massive purpose most of the elderly. Taking such teenagers & elder away from depression and coaching them to stay have become the cause of existence of 68-year-vintage Ashok Kumar Sahu and constructed ‘Dhamma Kalyan Kanpur International Vipassana Sadhana Kendra’ 10 years earlier than at Kanpur. The area of expertise of the centre at Deodhi Ghat is that sadhana is carried out right here in forty seven languages freed from price. There is many software for this. Foreigners also are getting inflow right here. There are publications provided withinside the month, which might be of 10–10 day time interval. When the Vipassana Sadhana Kendra turned into mounted in 2012, the teenagers have been maximum interested in it. Gradually, humans of each age organization moved right here to look for peace of thoughts and spirituality. The variety elevated each day and began out on-line booking. Till now, thousands of people have taken gain of it.

Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay, Orthopaedic & Spine Surgeon, Uttarakhand (Padma Shri)

Dr Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay, 65, Dehradun-primarily based totally orthopaedic & backbone surgeon, got here from a small farming own circle of relatives in Uttar Pradesh’s Orai town. He has finished his schooling at Chandigarh’s Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI). Dr. Bhupendra presently operating in Sanjay Orthopaedic, Spine & Maternity Centre, which he based in 2008. Before that, he headed the orthopaedics branch at Dehradun’s Jolly Grant Medical College. Dr. Sanjay organizes unfastened consultations to the terrible each 2d Saturday of a month & actively entails in consciousness marketing campaign concerning avenue visitors protection in which he promotes thru radio, TV, print media and public lectures considering 2002. He has organised 225 unfastened fitness camps & 5000 unfastened surgical procedures on kids affected by paralysis and incapacity because of polio & cerebral palsy which gave him access in India ee-e book of data in 2017.

Dr. Singh has honoured through numerous awards earlier than receiving Padma Shri as Uttarakhand Ratna in 2002, Uttaranchal Gaurav in 2003, SICOT Foundation France Award in 1996, Dr. Durga Prasad Lok Priya Chikitshak Puruskar in 2002. Besides that, he has featured four instances in Limca Book of Records in 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2009 for exclusive revolutionary and a success surgical achievements, like re-implantation of autoclaved tumour bone to keep the limb, casting off a massive bone tumour and for doing a a success backbone operation in an 88-year-old man, hip replacement surgical procedure in a 98-year-old high-chance patient, and keep the existence of a youngster female who has bone cancer. He additionally had featured withinside the Guinness Book of World Records in 2005 for casting off the most important bone tumor of the femur weighing 16.five kg from a 35-12 months-vintage patient- a feat.

Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh, Medicine from Bihar (Padma Shri)

Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh, who lives in a far flung village of Pirpainti in Bhagalpur district of Bihar and a well-known eminent health practitioner of the country, has offered through Padma Shri. At the age of ninety two even these days sufferers are visible withinside the village & do now no longer prescribe medicinal drug, deliver it in Pudia. His father turned into a health practitioner and practised withinside the equal village. Dr. Dilip Studied at Mound Vernon Hospital in New York. Also studied in Canada & travelled to many international locations. But leaving the overseas international locations & got here lower back to Peerapanti and began out treating sufferers which remains continue. In 1953 whilst cholera unfold in lots of regions of Bhagalpur district, he turned into very energetic in the treatment. Dr. Dilip kumar Singh began out a large-scale Pulse Polio campaign in his area freed from price through uploading vaccine from Russia approximately 10 years earlier than of Govt. of India turned into began out in 1995 nationwide. He constructed a watch health facility with the call of his father and additionally construct a avenue together along with his father’s call through donating his very own land. This avenue connects the highway to Govt health facility in his village. Dr. Dilip has written a book at the struggle of his existence- “मेरी कहानी, मेरी जुबानी”. Dr. Singh is one in all India’s few medical doctors and offered with the celebrated Panchsheel Shiromani Award, Life Time Achievement Award from the Indian Medical Association, Sister Carroll Award, and Padmashree Kamalabai Hospital Award with a coins quantity of Rs 1 lakh.

Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan (Late), Medicine from Tamil Nadu

Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan, popularly referred to as ” rupees health practitioner”, due to the fact he charged simplest 2 rupees for session for decades after making five rupees till his death. Dr. Thiruvengadam died in August 2020 on the age of 70 yrs. He had clinics in north Chennai — Sri Kalyanapuram and Erukkancherry. After his shift at a neighborhood non-public health facility, He practised there each day from eight pm to ten pm at Erukancherry vicinity & from 10 pm to past middle of the night at Sri Kalyanapuram vicinity. Dr. Thiruvengadam resident of Vyasarpadi in Chennai turned into born in farmer own circle of relatives. He finished his medicinal drug from Stanley authorities scientific college, Chennai. His spouse Saraswathi retired from railway officer few years ago. His son & daughter studied medicinal drug in Mauritius.