Dr. Divyaprakash B. Patel
DR D B PATEL WAS BORN IN CHALLA – VAPI IN 1950. HE DID HIS SCHOOLING FROM VAPI IN GUJARATI MEDIUM. LATER HE JOINED GOA MEDICAL COLLEGE AND PASSED M.B.B.S WITH FIRST CLASS FROM UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY IN 1974. HE JOINED LOKMANYA TILAK HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL COLLEGE, SION, BOMBAY AND WORKED WITH FAMOUS ORTHOPEADIC SURGEONS. DR. S. S. VENGSARKAR, DR. N. S. LAUD AND DR. V. T. INGALHALDIKAR. HE PASSED HIS MASTERS DEGREE ( M. S.) IN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY IN 1978.
WHILE WORKING AT SION HOSPITAL HE BECAME THE FIRST TRAUMA SURGEON WHEN THE FIRST TRAUMA CENTRE OF BOMBAY WAS STARTED UNDER DR. S.V. NADKARNI. HE PUBLISHED HIS SCIENTIFIC PAPER ON MANAGEMENT OF FRACTURE OF HUMARUS BONE WINNING THE PRIZE OF BEST PAPER. HIS CONCEPT OF POSTERIOR BONE GRAFTING FOR INFECTED NON UNION OF TIBIA BONE WAS WELL RECOGNISED AT NATIONAL LEVEL.
HE AFTER POST GRADUATION HE JOINED H. N. HOSPITAL BOMBAY AND LEARNED HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY FROM INTERNATIONALY ACCLAIMED ORTHO. SURGEON LATE DR. R. M. BHANSALI. HE LATER JOINED SARDAR SMARK HOSPITAL BARDOLI THEN A SMALL PLACE AS ORTHOPEADIC SURGEON AND SUPRINTENDANT OF THE HOSPITAL. HE BECAME THE MOST POPULAR DOCTOR.PEOPLE OF BARDOLI TILL TODAY REMEMBER HIM.
IN 1979 WHILE WORKING IN BARDOLI HE PERFORMED THE FIRST TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY IN STATE OF GUJARAT. AT THAT TIME REPLACEMENT SURGERY WAS A NEW CONCEPT. HE WAS AMONG VERY FEW SURGEONS DOING SURGERY OF SCOLILSIS ( HARRINGTON INSTRUMENTATION).
HE MARRIED DR. RUPA GYNAECOLOGIST IN 1979. HE THEN DECIDED TO SERVE HIS HOME TOWN AND STARTED 8 BEDED ASHIRWAD HOSPITAL IN VAPI IN 1980, ALONG WITH HIS WIFE. VAPI AT THAT TIME WAS A VERY SMALL TOWN HAVING TANGA AND FEW AUTOS ONLY. THERE WAS NO ANEASTHESIOLOGIST OR PHYSICIAN IT WAS VERY TOUGH TO PRACTICE AND ALL HIS TEACHERS ADVISED HIMTO COME BACK TO BOMBAY .IT WAS HIS WISH TO SERVE HERE AND ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN BY HIS LATE FATHER AND DR. B. M. JOSHI DEDICATED SURGEON .AND SUPPORT GIVEN BY HIS WIFE DR.RUPA IHE STAYED BACK IN VAPI AND THE REST IS HISTORY..
HE PUBLISHED AND PRESENTED MANY PAPERS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS HE CONDUCTED MANY WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA INCLUDING NATIONAL TRAUMA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP. HE IS MEMBER OF INDIAN ORTHOPEADIC ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY .HE IS ALSO MEMBER OF S.I.C.O.T. HE IS LIFE MEMBER OF GUJRAT MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND INDIAN MEDICAL ASSOCITATION. HE HAS ATTENDED MANY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ABROAD. HE HAD VISITED MANY MEDICAL CENTRES ALL OVER THE WORLD . HE DID FELLOWSHIP AT TRAUMA CENTRE IN SOUTH AFRICA ON INVITATION AND AT NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL IN LONDON. U.K.HE IS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH A.O. INTERNATIONAL GERMANY.HE IS MASTER IN A.O. INTERNATIONAL AND SOON HE WILL BECOME FACAULTY.
AT PRESENT HE IS PRESIDENT GUJARAT ORTHOPEADIC ASSOCIATION AND EXE. MEMBER OF INDIAN ORTHOPEDIC ASSOCIATION AND TRUMA SOCIETY OF INDIA . HE IS PAST PRESIDENT OF VAPI MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND TRUSTEE OF V.M.A. HE IS PAST PRESIDENT ROTARY CLUB OF SILVASSA AND HELD MANY POSTS AS DIST. CHAIRMAN
HIS WIFE DR RUPA PATEL IS VERY POPULAR OBG.& GYAENECOLOGIST KNOWN TO MOST OF YOU. HIS SON SIDDHATH D.N.B. IS ORTHOPEADIC SURGEON MARRIED TO DR MANPREET . GYAECOLOGIST .HIS DAUGHTER DR. KALYANI IS INFERTILITY SPECIALIST MARRIED TO DR. PRITESH UROSORGEON. I WISH HIM ALL THE BEST.
