Sad Demise of Dr. Chandrakant Patil

This is the saddest day in the history of MARD. Today morning one of our colleagues met a tragic end in course of flood relief operations in Bihar. Dr. Chandrakant Patil left us in the wee hrs in the morning today. He was extending medical relief to 100s of patients at a relief camp at Katariya, Supaul supported by noted filmmaker Mr. Prakash Jha.

After hard day’s work (extended to late night) Dr. Patil was out in the open along with his colleagues when he was struck by lightening in the late night yesterday (10:30PM on 21^st September, 2008). In spite of the best of the efforts he could not be saved. After the postmortem his body is being brought to Mumbai via Delhi.

Dr. Patil was pursuing his residency in Preventive and Social medicine at KEM Hospital, Mumbai after his MBBS from BJ Medical College, Pune. Dr. Patil made a very humble beginning from a very small town (Dhule) of Maharashtra. Coming from a very poor family (mill worker father and housewife mother), he was able to get a chance to get an admission in the most prestigious residency programs of social medicine in the country. Dr. Patil survived by a younger sister (20 years) along with elderly parents at home.

In last few days Dr. Patil had saved thousands of lives in the flood affected area in Bihar. Not only Maharashtra but the whole country has lost a brilliant doctor, a brave citizen and a proud son.

There is no way we can fill the loss to the family of Dr. Patil. But we appeal to the Govt. of Bihar, Govt. of India, and Govt. of Maharashtra, other government and non-government bodies and the concerned citizen to extend their help to the family of Dr. Patil.

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