Inspiration

2010
AIIMS Delhi

First beating heart surgery for Aortic tear repair in AIMS Delhi

1985
Prof A V Ramani

pioneered lab to market Indian blood oxygenator from SCTIMST, Kerala

1980s
Prof S Ramaseshan

who Chaired, India's first Blood bag manufacturing base of Mr C Balagopal, which went global

1970s
Dr.MS Valiathan

dreamed of what would be a global first jewel heart and delivered to the world an excellent heart valve from an Indian S&T platform.

1961
Open Heart Surgery

First open heart by Dr N Dastoor, in India

1935
Neurosurgical Milestone

The first neurosurgical procedure in India, a transsphenoidal hypo-physectomy, performed by Lt. Col. Frederick Jasper Anderson in Madras

1930s
Grantly Dick-Read

a British obstetrician, developed a technique of delivery called natural childbirth that minimized the surgical and anesthetic aspects of delivery and concentrated upon the mother's conscious effort to give birth to her child.

1920s
Erle Dicksen

Erle Dicksen used an adhesive tape to stick cotton balls to dress his wife’s wound and eventually made up to Vice President of J&J