Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi

Surgeon

1916 – 2005

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Who was Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi?

Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi was an Indian ophthalmologist. He was born in Bilagi in Bagalkot district. He is the Alumni of KLE U's Shri B M Kankanawadi Ayurved Mahavidyalaya Belgaum. He was the pioneer of mass eye surgery in India. The Guinness Book of World Records lists Modi as the "most dedicated doctor," for performing the highest number of eye surgeries. He performed as many as 833 cataract operations in one day. He visited 46,120 villages and 12,118,630 patients, and performed a total of 610,564 operations to February 1993."When my time comes I would like to disappear silently"he concluded.He meant that when death comes to him he would accept it wholeheartedly and die without troubling anyone with all the good and bad he did.

Helen Keller, who spoke of him as "a light piercing the darkness with his selfless service". Dr M C Modi has been awarded

Padma Shri in 1956

Padma Bhushan in 1968

Knight of The Blind award

Doctarate by Mysore University, Karnataka University and Puna University

In his words - "Like a circus company I have toured all over India since 1943 to provide free eye relief service. In the process I have examined over 10 million patients and conducted over 700,000 eye operations, which I am told is a world record. Somebody compared me to Henry Ford, saying I had brought conveyor belt technology to the field of eye-care. My way of looking at things has not been affected by the ageing process at all. I am just an ordinary man. I will serve as long as God wants me to. For me, my patient is my god, the operating room is my temple and my instruments are my puja. My work has therefore been my pilgrimage."

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Born
Oct 4, 1916
Bilgi
Nationality
  • India
Profession
Died
Nov 11, 2005
Bangalore

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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