Amazing! From an Indian village to one of the world's finest heart surgeons
Dr Ramakant Panda -- who has performed more than 18,000 heart operations including one on the prime minister and built a world-class hospital -- is considered one of the best cardiac surgeons in the world..
"The biggest challenge was to keep away from getting astray," Dr Panda recalls his childhood in Damodarpur in Odisha's Jashpur district.
Dr Panda -- vice-chairman and managing director of one of India's best cardiac care hospitals, Mumbai's Asian Heart Institute which recently treated its 200,000th patient -- credits his parents, his grandfather and his school headmaster for his success.
"All these people prevented me from going astray and help me become what I am today," he says.
Always a brilliant student Dr Panda credits his maternal uncle for inspiring him to become a doctor. "My mama was a doctor, a pretty successful doctor. He retired as the Director General Medical Services in the Indian armed forces. He was my inspiration."
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