Patna,(BiharTimes): An eminent physician and former Professor and Head of Department, Medicine, Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), Dr Mohan Mishra, has been selected for Padma Shri award this year. His name has been selected by the central government and not sent by the state.
Dr Mishra, a resident of Bengali Tola in Laheriasarai, a twin town of Darbhanga, belongs to Koilakh village in Madhubani district. This village has the distinction of producing several scholars, administrators, judges, journalists and other professionals.
Dr Mishra started his career as the Resident Medical Officer at DMCH in 1962 and became Professor in the DMCH Medicine Department in 1979 and head of the department in 1986. He took voluntary retirement in 1995.
Dr Mishra did his MRCP from the United Kingdom in 1970 and FRCP from Edinburg in 1984 and another FRCP from London in 1988.
Dr Mishra was born on May 19, 1937. He did his research in kala-azar and some of his works were funded by the WHO. His pioneering report on the use of Amphotericin B (Fungizone) medicine was published in the Lancet in 1991. Amphotericin B is now the foremost drug for the treatment of kala-azar - azar. He was also an expert member of Union Public Service Commission.
He, along with his son Narottam Mishra, information scientist in KSDSU, worked on ways to get rid of arsenic in drinking water. He wrote “A Textbook of Clinical Medicine” published by the Oxford University Press.
Interestingly, Dr Mishra wrote several books on history, like “An Unfinished Story: A History of the Indian Freedom Movement”, “Building an Empire: Chanakya Revisited”, “Mangal Pandey to Lakshmibai: A Story of the Indian Mutiny 1857” and “India Through the Alien Eyes” which was published by Balboa Press, USA, in 2012. It got “The Wishing Self” award in the United Kingdom in the adult non-fiction category.
Dr Mishra, nowadays, holds free medical camps in remote villages in Darbhanga and Madhubani districts.