Jaiveer Agarwal is a renowned Indian ophthalmologist. He also founded founder of Dr. Agarwal’s Group of Eye Hospitals. He was the recipient of the Padma Bhushan

Padma Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...

for medicine from then President of India A P J Abdul Kalam in March 2006.

Career

Jaiveer Agarwal went to Madras along with his wife and set up a small clinic there.

Apart from running the hospital in Chennai, he went from village to village around the city, screening lakhs of patients, treating them and operating on them. Among his achievements remembered even today were hard-nosed campaigns for eye donation to treat corneal blindness, and correcting refractive errors among schoolchildren.

Personal life

Jaiveer Agarwal is married to Tahira Agarwal, an ophthalmologist and has a son Dr Amar Agarwal, an ophthalmologist and a daughter, Sunita Agarwal, who runs the hospital. The death of his wife in April this year affected his health badly.