25 Bihar doctors get Times Healthcare Achievers award

Patna: Doctors are considered next to God on the earth applying their knowledge to help their patient recover. To acknowledge the efforts of healthcare pioneers in Bihar, Times Group once again took up an initiative to felicitate them with Times Bihar Healthcare Achievers 2015 awards.

Altogether 25 doctors from different fields were honoured at the function organized at Hotel Chanakya on Sunday evening. Whereas Dr Dilip Sen and Dr B K Chaudhary were honoured with lifetime achievement award, Dr Prakash K Mishra was felicitated for his contribution to community healthcare.

In the field of anaesthesia, Dr Ajit Gupta bagged the award while Dr Ajay Kumar Sinha was awarded in cardiology. Others who were felicitated are: Dr Man Mohan (cardiothoracic surgery), Dr Alok Kumar (dentistry), Dr Ajay Kumar (endocrinology), Dr Brijlal (ENT), Dr Bimal Kumar (gastroenterology), Dr Manoj Kumar (general and laparoscopic surgery), Dr Ramji Singh (general physician), Dr Ravindra Kumar Das (internal medicine), Dr Om Kumar (nephrology), Dr Mukund Prasad (neurosurgery), Dr Rahul Kumar (neurology), Dr Anita Singh (obstetrics and gynaecology), Dr Rajiv Sharan (oncology), Dr Bibhuti Prasan Sinha (ophthalmology), Dr Amulya Singh (orthopaedics), Dr Bindey Kumar (paediatric surgery), Dr Anil Kumar Jaiswal (paediatrics), Dr Prabhat Ranjan (pathology), D Prem Kumar (radiology) and Dr M N Singh (respiratory medicine).

The achievers were selected by an eminent jury comprising, among others, Justice (retired) S K Singh, Nalanda University VC Gopa Sabharwal, founder member-secretary of Asian Development Research Institute Shaibal Gupta and IGIMS director Dr N R Biswas.

The award ceremony was marked by lots of fun and enjoyment and cracking of jokes on doctors, which made even serious doctors laugh at themselves.

Playback singer Rupali Jagga, who had performed in Chote Ustad 2009 and was honoured with most beautiful voice award in Indian Idol 2012, mesmerized the audience with her scintillating performance. She made the evening all the more beautiful and forced everyone to tap their feet to the tunes of latest Bollywood number as well as old songs.

The event was organized in collaboration with Paras-HMRI hospital and automobile partner Mahindra and Mahindra.

Its hospitality partner was Hotel Chanakya and media partner Advantage media. Dr Ravi Shankar Singh, Dr A A Hai, Dr S N Arya, Vinay Kumar, IG (CID), and PN Rai, DG (homeguards) graced the occasion.