New Delhi:
The director of Hyderabad-based breast cancer surgeon, Dr. P. Raghu Ram, has received an honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (RCS) of England.
dr. Raghu Ram is the youngest surgeon of Indian descent to receive an honorary FRCS in the Royal College’s 482-year history, a statement from the institution said.
This is the highest recognition given by the Royal College in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art and science of surgery, it said.
dr. Raghu Ram is director of the KIMS-Ushalakshmi Center for Breast Diseases.
“I am deeply grateful to the College Council for bestowing this high honour. Over the past 15 years I have striven to replicate best British practice in my motherland and am immensely proud to have been a ‘living bridge’ between the UK and India. I dedicate this high honor to my family, my patients, my colleagues in KIMS hospitals and the Indian Surgical Brotherhood around the world,” he said upon receiving the honorary grant.
“Proud to represent my motherland at the Royal College today in the traditional Bandhgala proudly wearing the tricolor handkerchief of India representing Bharath,” he added.