Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E007822 - Bhargava, Kamta Prasad (1917 - 1993)
Title:
Bhargava, Kamta Prasad (1917 - 1993)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E007822
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-09-02
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Bhargava, Kamta Prasad (1917 - 1993), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Bhargava, Kamta Prasad
Date of Birth:
9 February 1917
Place of Birth:
Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India
Date of Death:
11 November 1993
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1948
MB BS Patna 1940
NIS Patna 1943
Details:
Kamta Bhargava was born on 9 February 1917 at Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India, the son of Colonel Dwarka Prasad Bhargava FRCS, the first Indian civil surgeon in Delhi and Professor of Surgery at the Prince of Wales Medical College in Palna and Agra.
He was educated at West Buckland School in Devonshire and St Bartholomew's Hospital but at the outbreak of war in 1939 he returned to India to complete his training in Patna, where he qualified with honours in surgery In 1940. After junior posts he obtained the MS in 1943 and joined the Indian army. Bhargava returned to England in 1947 to take the FRCS. He won a Nuffield Scholarship in Chest Surgery at Harefield Hospital. On returning to India he was appointed consultant surgeon to Moolchand Hospital, Delhi, and worked there for 'the rest of his career.
He married Shanta Wazir, a doctor. They had a daughter, Neirah, and two sons, both of whom became doctors. Nalin, a pathologist in New Delhi and Hemant, a paediatrician in Chicago. Bhargava died on 11 November 1993 after a long illness.
Sources:
Information from Dr Shanta Wazir Bhargava
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007800-E007899
Media Type:
Unknown
