Sushovan Banerjee
Kolkata: Sushovan Banerjee aka 'One Rupee Doctor' passes away
Kolkata/UNI: Padma Shri awardee Dr Sushovan Banerjee aka ‘Ek Takar Daktar’ (one rupee doctor) passed away at 84 on Tuesday morning.
The Octogenarian doctor from Bolpur was famous for treating poor patients for just a rupee.
He breathed his last at 11.25 am on Tuesday morning
Banerjee was suffering from senile diseases for a long time and was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata.
Once the MLA of Bolpur, Dr Sushovan was famous not only in Bolpur, but in the entire state of West Bengal.
He was a general physician who had been treating patients for the past 57 years.
The Padma Shri honour was conferred upon him by the Government of India for his humanitarian service to the nation.
Dr Banerjee’s name will be included in the Guinness Book of World Records for treating the highest number of patients.
He has treated more than 20 lakh patients and that’s a world record.
People of Birbhum often say, those who have nobody to call their own, have Dr Sushovan Banerjee at their side, ready to extend a helping hand.
There was an acute crisis of medical practitioners during the lockdown situation, but he remained unfazed by such impediments and treated upto 150 patients on an average everyday.
The entire state salutes this committed physician and a great human being.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
