Mortó Sitarama Naique Pratap Rau Sar Dessai (4 January 1922 – unknown) was a Portuguese medical analyst of

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origin who worked in

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Biography

Dessai was born in

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. He completed his pharmacy and medicine courses at the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Goa, respectively, in 1942 and 1948, and received four honorary awards in pharmacy and eight prizes, five honorifics and three institutional awards in medicine. He was an assistant of the third group of the Goa Medical School and in charge of the Hematology and Hemotherapy Services of Goa.

Training

Dessai also trained at the K.E.M. Hospital of

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and Blood Transfusion Services of the Civil Hospitals of

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, from 1953 to 1955. Dessai also graduated in 1955 at the Faculty of Medicine of the

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Internships in Zürich and Basel

Dessai also did internships at laboratories in

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. Dessai was, in 1959, the Biochemist Analyst of the Blood Service of the Civil Hospitals of

Papers published

He published the following papers: * ''Filaríase em Goa'', 1952 * ''Amibíase em Goa'', 1954, em colecção * ''Grupos Sanguíneos dos Goeses'', 1954, em colecção * ''Hemostase (alguns aspectos da sua Fisiopatologia)'', 1955, e * ''Anemias Hemolíticas'', 1957, em colecção

References

1922 births Possibly living people University of Porto alumni Portuguese writers Portuguese biochemists 20th-century biochemists 20th-century Portuguese biologists Portuguese people of Goan descent Medical doctors from Goa {{portugal-med-bio-stub