Vikram Marwah (1925-2013) was an Indian orthopedic surgeon, social worker and the founder of ''Handicapped Children's Rehabilitation Centre and Children's Orthopedic Hospital'' of the

Matru Sewa Sangh Matru Sewa Sangh is an Indian non-profit organisation founded in 1921, by Kamalatai Hospet and Venutai Nene in Nagpur, Maharashtra. It runs a network of sites dedicated to providing health services to the poor, including a maternity hospital, scho ...

Sitabuldi Sitabuldi Fort (Marathi: सीताबर्डी किल्ला), site of the Battle of Sitabuldi in 1817, is located atop a hillock in central Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. The fort was built by the British after they won this area fol ...

and ''Matrubhu Antargat Sanskar'', a children's magazine. A winner of

Dr. B. C. Roy Award The Bidhan Chandra Roy Award was instituted in 1962 in memory of Dr. B. C. Roy by the Medical Council of India. It is presented by the President of India in New Delhi every year on July 1, National Doctors' Day. It is also the highest honour tha ...

, he was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri

Biography

Vikram Marwah was born on 4 June 1925 in Shivni village of Nagpur district in the Western Indian state of

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

. He graduated in medicine (MBBS) from Calcutta Medical College in 1948 and started his career as a medical volunteer serving the refugees of the freedom movement and the victims of draught affected areas in Bengal. Later, he pursued his higher studies and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1956. He returned to India in 1961 and started working as a Professor of Surgery at Aurangabad where he worked till 1971. During this period, he is known to have established the departments of orthopedics and

paraplegia Paraplegia, or paraparesis, is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek () "half-stricken". It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition that affects the neural ...

. He received a scholarship from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Commonwealth fellowship in 1971. The next year, he moved to the

Government Medical College, Nagpur Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur is a medical college located in Ajni which is part of South Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in 1947 and was affiliated with Nagpur University from 1947 to 1997, and subsequently Mahar ...

and worked there till his retirement from the government service in 1980 as the Dean of the college. After retirement, Marwah founded the Handicapped Children's Rehabilitation Centre and Children's Orthopedic Hospital, in 1981, associated with the

for treating polio affected and physically challenged children and worked there for 20 years. He also founded the ''Matrubhu Antargat Sanskar'', a magazine for children. A supporter of Hindi language, Marwah served as the vice president of the ''Hindi Rashtra Bhasha Prachar Samiiti'' and Vidharbha Seva Samiti. His contributions are also reported behind the establishment of ''Bharti Krishna Vidhya Vihar School'' and the organization of several surgical and blood donation camps. Marwah, who is credited with 22 medical papers, was an approved examiner of post graduate courses in general surgery and orthopedics. A former president of the Indian Orthopedics Association and a co-founder of the Vidarbha Orthopaedic Society, he was a fellow of Johnson and Johnson and Smith and Nephew. He is a recipient of A. A. Mehta Gold Medal and Sir Arthur Eyre Brook award. In 1979, he received the Dr. B. C. Roy Award - Medical Teacher, the highest Indian award in the medical category. The Government of India honoured him with the civilian award of Padma Shri in 2002. Vikram Marwah died at the age of 88 on 6 November 2013 succumbing to old age illnesses, leaving behind his wife and two children, a son and a daughter.

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