2012-2013
News Release
REF NO.: 27
SUBJECT: Lecture on rural health in India taking place at Memorial’s Faculty of Medicine
DATE: October 16, 2012
Note to editors:
Media representatives are invited to attend a special public lecture by
Dr. Chandra Sankurathri on Wednesday, Oct. 17 starting at 4:30 p.m. in lecture theatre E (Nursing 2956) in the Health Sciences Centre. The lecture is titled Rural Health in India: Empowerment by Manjari Sankurathri Memorial Foundation – A 20-Year Journey.
Dr. Sankurathri is a Memorial graduate who responded to the tragic loss of his wife, son and daughter in the 1985 Air India bombing by dedicating his life to help alleviate the suffering of others. He will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at Memorial University’s fall convocation on Friday, Oct. 19.
Dr. Sankurathri established the Manjari Sankurathri Memorial Foundation as a registered charity in Canada in 1989 and the Sankurathri Foundation in India in the same year. Within the Sankurathri Foundation, Dr. Sankurathri manages an eye hospital, Srikiran Institute of Ophthalmology, and the Sarada Vidyalayam High School. These charities provide free education to hundreds of rural children and have provided free eye care services to almost two million patients, including restoring eyesight to nearly 200,000 patients through free cataract surgeries.
He has been recognized with many awards for his charitable work, including the 2006 Outstanding Community Achievement Award of the India Canada Association, and was named a CNN hero by CNN International in 2008 – the first to be nominated from India.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Global Health Program of the Faculty of Medicine and the Division of Community Health and Humanities
REF NO.: 27
SUBJECT: Lecture on rural health in India taking place at Memorial’s Faculty of Medicine
DATE: October 16, 2012
Note to editors:
Media representatives are invited to attend a special public lecture by
Dr. Chandra Sankurathri on Wednesday, Oct. 17 starting at 4:30 p.m. in lecture theatre E (Nursing 2956) in the Health Sciences Centre. The lecture is titled Rural Health in India: Empowerment by Manjari Sankurathri Memorial Foundation – A 20-Year Journey.
Dr. Sankurathri is a Memorial graduate who responded to the tragic loss of his wife, son and daughter in the 1985 Air India bombing by dedicating his life to help alleviate the suffering of others. He will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at Memorial University’s fall convocation on Friday, Oct. 19.
Dr. Sankurathri established the Manjari Sankurathri Memorial Foundation as a registered charity in Canada in 1989 and the Sankurathri Foundation in India in the same year. Within the Sankurathri Foundation, Dr. Sankurathri manages an eye hospital, Srikiran Institute of Ophthalmology, and the Sarada Vidyalayam High School. These charities provide free education to hundreds of rural children and have provided free eye care services to almost two million patients, including restoring eyesight to nearly 200,000 patients through free cataract surgeries.
He has been recognized with many awards for his charitable work, including the 2006 Outstanding Community Achievement Award of the India Canada Association, and was named a CNN hero by CNN International in 2008 – the first to be nominated from India.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Global Health Program of the Faculty of Medicine and the Division of Community Health and Humanities
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