Umakkant Tribhuvan Purohit was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Elyria Memorial Hospital, Ohio, USA. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya on 10 August 1936, the fifth child and fourth son of Tribhuvan Purohit, a clerk, and Kamlagauri Purohit. He was educated at the Duke of Gloucester School in Nairobi, and then attended the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda and the B J Medical College, Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India. He qualified MB BS in 1963. He went to the UK, where in 1966 he became a senior house officer in the casualty department of King George Hospital, Ilford. He was then a senior house officer in the trauma and orthopaedic department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, a registrar in the trauma unit, Welsh School of Medicine, Cardiff, and a surgical registrar at Manor House Hospital, London. In 1972 he gained his FRCS. In 1975 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Elyria, Ohio, where he practised at the Elyria Memorial Hospital for over 30 years. Outside medicine he enjoyed football, cricket and badminton. He also had a keen interest in politics and enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren. In 1964 he married Bharti Mudrika. They had three daughters – Lopa, Deepa and Teena. Umakkant Purohit died on 22 April 2012 at the age of 75.