The Hindu in association with Andhra Hospitals will celebrate Doctors’ Day on Tuesday. The heads of various specialities of the Andhra Hospitals group, including managing director and chief surgical gastroenterologist P.V. Ramana Murthy, M.S. FRCS, will observe the day along with patients and their kin on the hospital premises, C.V.R.Complex.
Head of Paediatric Intensive Care section P.V. Rama Rao, M.D., MRCP (UK), FRCPCP, Foetal and Maternal Medicine specialist P. Padma, M.D., MRCOG (UK) and MRCP (UK), interventional cardiologists J. Sreemannaryana, M.D.,D.M., pulmonologist M. Ravindranadh, M.D., FCCP, and orthopaedician B. Sunil, M.S., will participate in the Doctors’ Day celebrations.
The primary objective of observing the Doctors’ Day is to show the doctors and specialists how important they were to all and how invaluable their treatment was. The celebration was also indicative of the tremendous respect doctors’ command amongst their patients, but also to the rest of society.
Different nations of the world celebrate the day to honour leading doctors of their country.
In India it is celebrated on July 1 to honour the Second Chief Minister of West Bengal and legendary physician Bidhan Chandra Roy. Dr Roy was born on July 1, 1882 and died on the same day in 1962. Dr Roy was honoured the Bharat Ratna on February 4, 1961.
