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.
