डॉ.कृष्णमूर्ति के निधन के अवसर पर दिनांक ३ जुलाई २०१० को दि हिंदु दैनिक में आया समाचार.
A doyen of oncology in the country, Dr.
Krishnamurthi was born in 1919 to Sundara Reddy and Muthulakshmi
Reddy, India's first woman medical graduate. He passed MBBS in 1942
and M.S. in 1946. In 1947, he went abroad to work as a Fellow of the
Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital, Missouri, U.S., and later, at
the Royal Cancer Hospital, London. Right through, he immersed himself
in oncology, an interest that was to dictate the rest of his life.
On returning to India, Dr.
Krishnamurthi took charge as head of the Cancer Unit, Government
General Hospital here. His close associate and collaborator of many
years, V. Shanta, Director, Cancer Institute, recalled in an
interview to Frontline in August 2005, how Dr. Krishnamurthi
tried to kill corruption that was rampant in the hospital at that
time.
It is said that his interest in the
causes and treatment of cancer was kindled by his mother.
Muthulakshmi Reddy started the Adyar Cancer Institute as a four-bed
unit in 1954, and Dr. Krishnamurthy became her natural heir there. He
took over as Director in 1959 and the Institute has grown to 450 beds
now. He and Dr. Shanta were the only doctors on call at the Institute
in the initial years when treatment of cancer in India was in its
infancy.
For Dr. Krishnamurthi, working to
eradicate cancer was his life's purpose and he devoted all his time
and energy to this mission. He advocated the idea that it was
important to detect cancer in the initial stages in order to be able
to cure it.
In 1970, the government recognised his
pioneering efforts towards understanding and treatment of cancer and
awarded him the Padma Shri. From 1965, he was on one or more
committees of the World Health Organisation up until 1982. In 1983,
he became a member of the Advisory Committee on Cancer Control and
Planning of the Central government. He was also a much sought-after
expert in his field.
“Great guide”
S. Ganapathy Ramanan, an oncologist
with the Cancer Research and Relief Trust, recollects fondly his
interaction with Dr. Krishnamurthi right at the beginning of his
career. “He was a man of great vision, ideas and a great guide for
people like us. In fact he was the first in the 1960s to treat the
patient with radiation before surgery in breast cancer. This marked a
paradigm shift in the treatment of large tumours.” Dr.
Krishnamurthi, he said, would insist that if the patient had no one
else to take care of him, his doctor must do so.
A.V. Lakshmanan, Adviser 2, Cancer
Institute, said: “The services rendered by Dr. S. Krishnamurthi
were indeed outstanding.”
The funeral will be held on Monday. He
is survived by a son and a daughter.
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