![]() ![]() ![]() His love to serve his own people brought him back to India and he joined the AIIMS in New Delhi in 1956. John Charley and David Lyod Griffith in UK for a year. He had the privilege of working with Sir. He did his residency program in orthopedic surgery at the prestigious Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre, USA, and passed his FRCS (Canada) in orthopedics, the first Indian to do so. He graduated from Stanley Medical College, and was the recipient of 17 prizes, which still remains a record for MBBS degree. Balu Sankaran was born in a family of doctors in Chennai in 1926. It is like depicting how a teacher, a surgeon, a clinician, a research worker, an administrator, a loving husband and father, and an understanding colleague should be, all in one.ĭr. It is like paying tribute to the great human characters of tenacity of purpose, hard work, and simplicity yet dynamicity to achieve the ultimate. Balu Sankaran, who left us for his heavenly abode on 20th of June 2012, is like writing the vibrant growth of orthopedic surgery in India for the past 50 years of which he was a great part. Penning down the obituary of my mentor Prof. ![]()
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