Mumbai doctor gets award

The city-based K G Foundation
today conferred the "Dynamic Doctor of Excellence of the Decade Award" on a Mumbai-based doctor, Manish Agarwal.
The Foundation Chairman G Bakthavathsalam handed over the citation to Agarwal, a Consultant Orthopaedic Oncologist of PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, who has been identified as the exemplary personality to be honored with the award and excelled in the little known but evolving medical field called "orthopedic oncology."
In his address, Agarwal said, "Most people never heard of bone cancer and because of its rarity not much attention was paid to such a serious health issue.

Mostly, young people in the age group of 10 to 25 years develop sarcoma which is generally growing faster in the knee area of the leg."
Before the invention of modern implants, the only cure offered was amputation of the affected limb, he said adding that his focus was on salvaging the limbs and not amputation.
On imported implants, he said, as they were costing a fortune and priced at about Rs 4 lakh, he along with engineers worked on manufacturing indigenized implants with locally available technology.
With government funding he could succeed in evolving indigenized implants that cost about Rs 1 lakh, thus making it affordable and improving the quality of life of patients, he added.