Krishan Kumar Aggarwal (5 September 1958 – 17 May 2021) was an Indian

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and senior

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who was President of the Confederation of Medical Association of Asia and Oceania (CMAAO), President of the Heart Care Foundation of India and the Past National President of

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. In 2010, the

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honored him with the

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, India's fourth-highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of medicine.

Biography

Dr. Aggarwal was born on 5 September 1958. He did his MBBS from

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in 1979 and obtained an MD from the

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in 1983. He was a senior consultant at Moolchand Medcity,

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, until 2017. During his career, Aggarwal served as the Honorary Secretary General of the

(IMA), Chairman of the IMA Academy of Medical Specialties, National Honorary Finance Secretary of the IMA, director of the IMA's AKN Sinha Institute, president of the Delhi Medical Association, President of the IMA's New Delhi branch and chairman of the

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's Delhi chapter. He taught at the

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as a visiting professor. He was the national president of the

and chief editor of IJCP Group. He was appointed the president of "Confederation of Medical Association of Asia and Oceania" (CMAAO) in September 2019. He also served as the Vice Chairman of World Fellowship of Religion. Aggarwal published books on health including ''Alloveda'' in which he combined ancient Vedic medicine with modern allopathy. He contributed to the ''International Textbook on Echocardiography'' with six chapters on

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. He has around 14 publications in international journals such as ''

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'' and '' Circulation''; and 115 publications in the Indian journals such as the ''Indian Heart Journal'', ''The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India'' and the ''Indian Journal of Heart Research''. He had claimed that the Indian epic

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offers answers to many psychiatric issues and Lord

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was India's first counsellor. He was honored with the

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in 2005. He has also received the "Vishwa Hindi Samman", "National Science Communication Award", "FICCI Health Care Personality of the Year Award", "Dr D S Mungekar National IMA Award" and the "Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award". In 2010, he received the

Award. Aggarwal was criticized for justifying Prime Minister

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's call to light lamps during the first wave of the

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Death

In May 2021, Aggarwal's family announced that he was undergoing treatment for a COVID-19 infection in Delhi. Aggarwal died on 17 May 2021, in New Delhi from COVID-19.

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