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Dr. Nishant Kumar is no ordinary doctor. Apart from being the second ophthalmologist in the world to have received a Fulbright Scholarship from the US Senate, Dr. Kumar’s empathy and understanding of his Indian patients has led him to conduct what is to be one of the most ambitious medical projects undertaken in the city during Ganesh Utsav.
Dr. Nishant Kumar is no ordinary doctor. Apart from being the second ophthalmologist in the world to have received a Fulbright Scholarship from the US Senate, Dr. Kumar’s empathy and understanding of his Indian patients has led him to conduct what is to be one of themost ambitious medical projects undertaken in the city during Ganesh Utsav.
This Ganesh Chaturthi, doctors from all over the world will gather with celebrities and educational institutes to break a new Guinness World Record on September 11– the largest number of people screened for ‘eyebetes’ in a single location on a single day. Dr Nishant Kumar, who started the initiative, said that he wanted to highlight the relationship between diabetes and blindness in India and targeted the devotees of Lalbaugcha Raja for the ambitious project.
The Indian Academy of Diabetes awarded Dr Nishant Kumar with the Indian Academy of Diabetes – Sanofi, Rising Star Award for 2015 at the International Symposium of Diabetes held in Mumbai.
Dr Nishant Kumar is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon who returned to Mumbai in late 2014 after having trained and lived in the UK for the past 14 years. He now works as a Consultant Ophthalmologist with expertise in uveitis and the medical and surgical management of complex diseases affecting the posterior segment (vitreous, retina and macula) at the P D Hinduja Hospital, Mahim and the Hinduja Healthcare Surgical Hospital, Khar.
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