Dr R Kesavan Nair (valia Kesavan Nair) was the Professor of Surgery at

Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram The Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram (also known as Thiruvananthapuram Medical College or Trivandrum Medical College) is in Thiruvananthapuram (the capital of Kerala), India. Founded in 1951, it was inaugurated by Prime Minister J ...

and the first Superintendent of the Medical College Hospital. He is Kerala's First civil surgeon. He along with Dr. C.O. Karunakaran was the founding fathers of the first Medical College in Kerala. Dr. Nair graduated in Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Madras Medical College in 1937. He later joined as the Chief of Surgery in General Hospital,

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. Later on he went abroad for further training and was the first person from Travancore to get a degree of Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (in 1930). When Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned the Medical College hospital in Thiruvananthapuram in 1954, he was appointed as the Chief Surgeon and Superintendent of the hospital the post he held till 1962. In 1962, he joined

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and later retired as the Principal of

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in 1966. He also served as the President of Travancore-Cochin Medical Council and member of

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. The road from Medical College junction to Murinjapalam is to be named in his honour.

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* "Many of my friends and patients have asked if doctors would become hard-hearted seeing the pain and agony of patients. In reality, doctors learn to hide their worries, otherwise there will not be anyone to console the patients and their families."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nair, R. Kesavan 1910 births 2005 deaths Indian surgeons Medical doctors from Thiruvananthapuram 20th-century Indian medical doctors 20th-century surgeons

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