B C Roy - Doctor to a National ICON B Pratap Reddya A

Vol 1 | Issue 1 July - September 2021 GUEST EDITORIAL Telangana Journal of IMA

B C Roy - Doctor to a National ICON B Pratap Reddya a. Past President - TS IMA* Published on 3rd August 2021 Dr.B.C.Roy was the National prodigy both as a Doctor The Govt. of India also announced July 1st as the who got his MRCP & FRCS from the prestigious National Doctor’s Day to be celebrated every year. Royal Medical Institute from colonial British empire. Dr.B.C.Roy being both a Physician & Surgeon returned If Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of the Nation, that from London to his mother land and participated Dr.B.C.Roy is the Father of Doctors of Modern in the freedom struggle along with National icons like Medicine of India. Mahathma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Vallabhai The one lesson every Indian doctor of modern Patel, Pandit Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar.¹ medicine can learn from the life & work of Dr.B.C.Roy In the line of his duty as a doctor on many occasions is how he achieved his academic qualifications of was physician to Mahathma Gandhi. Once our beloved both Medicine-MRCP & Surgery-FRCS, and then go country got independence Dr.B.C.Roy went on to on to participate in the Indian freedom moment and become the first Chief Minister for the three terms un- go further to become a Chief Minister and achieved interruptedly till his end. He brought remarkable devel- BHARAT RATNA - his transformation from doctor opment to his state and he was the role model admin- to a National Leader. istrator and doctor to the core. Even as Chief Minister, Let every doctor follow Dr.B.C.Roy with Empathy- he set an example to fellow political leaders that every Sympathy and ethical practice as a core value of a day he practiced medicine after his office hours.¹ modern doctor He was primarily instrumental in getting the Medical To propagate the legacy and life of Dr.B.C.Roy an Council of India Act of 1954 being drafted into the ORATION has been instituted by Dr.B. Pratap Reddy constitution by his advice to both then Prime Minister & late Dr.B.Shobha Reddy on the subject of ethics on Jawaharlal Nehru and the architect of constitution B.R. July 1st the Doctor’s Day.² Ambedkar. Dr.B.C.Roy was a strict proponent of Ethics in medical End Note practice. It was this he formulated the Medical Council Author Information of India Act 1954 to regulate and standardize both Dr.B Pratap Reddy, medical practice and medical education.¹ Past President - TS IMA Apart from all these achievements he established Conflict of Interest: None declared several health care and educational institutions & last but not the least he donated his house for the welfare References of the people to the Govt. of West Bengal. 1. Remembering Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy: Facts about the doctor who dedicated his life to the profession of medicine [Internet]. India Dr.B.C.Roy was awarded the highest Indian Civilian Today. [cited 2021 Aug 2]. Award the BHARAT RATNA by the president Dr. 2. “Dr. B.C. Roy Award | MCI India”. www.mciindia.org. Archived Sarvepalli Radha Krishna Posthumously.¹ from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

Corresponding Author: Dr. B Pratap Reddy Access this Article Online H/NO 8/2/350/6/A1 Banjara Hills Road No3 Scan this QR Code Hyderabad 500032 E-mail: [email protected] DOI: https://doi.org/10.52314/tjima.2021.v1i1.7 Cite this article as: Reddy BP. B C Roy - Doctor to a National ICON. Telangana Journal of IMA. 2021 Aug 3;1(1):9–9.