M. Ch. In Plastic Surgery

The Plastic Surgery course at Seth G.S.Medical College and K.E.M.Hospital was inaugurated on December 1961 on the initiative of Dr. C.J.T. Pinto, the active support of Dr. S.V.Joglekar, the then Dean and the participation of Mr. Eric Peet of Oxford who was actively involved during the first three months of its existence and for a month each during the next two years. Dr. Ananta Puranik and Dr. Deodutt Bendre were the first Surgical Registrar and House Surgeon respectively. We had about 30 dedicated beds and a dedicated operation theatre. The last was a gracious gesture of Dr. H. N. Dastur, the then Professor and Head of the Department of Neurosurgery. The OT was shared between the two departments at this stage, but as soon as the Neurosurgery OT Complex was commissioned, we were vested with the exclusive use of this OT complex.