Orthopaedic surgeon Soundarapandian passes away at 94
His sons, Sivamurugan and Ravisubramaniam, are also orthopaedists. The funeral will be held at 9 a.m. on Thursday.
Dr. Soundarapandian used to treat patients till 2020. It was only during the COVID-19 pandemic that he stopped seeing patients, Mohan Rajan, chairman and medical director of Rajan Eye Care Hospital, said. 'He [Dr. Soundarapandian] was instrumental in developing the Institute of Orthopaedics in the Government General Hospital [RGGGH]. In the 1970s and 1980s there were no private hospitals and all the ortho cases would come only to GH. The RGGGH is one of the gold standard institutions that performed complicated surgeries,' he added.
Dr. Soundarapandian was born in Thoothukudi on July 4, 1931, and completed his MBBS degree from the Stanley Medical College and MS General Surgery and MS Orthopeadics from the Madras Medical College (MMC). He went on a commonwealth fellowship programme at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.
He worked at the MMC as a professor of orthopaedics and eventually headed the department, teaching for over 30 years. He founded the Soundarapandian Bone and Joint Hospital in Anna Nagar in 1982.
Dr. Mohan Rajan described him as a 'doyen of orthopaedic surgery. Our teacher, mentor...,who enriched and inspired us all with his vast knowledge and experience in the field of orthopaedics'.
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