
CHENNAI: Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar, organised a memorial oration in honour of Dr S Krishnamurthi, recently at its premises. Dr MR Raju, managing trustee, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical Trust, Bhimavaram, delivered the memorial oration.
Raju, said, “We have recently seen enormous development in technology and science, but we have not nurtured an ethical base as yet. Greatest scientists of the past did not patent their findings, as they wanted to help humanity. People like Dr Krishnamurthi are an ideal example of selfless service to society. If each of us follows similar ethics, I am sure we can definitely bring in a sea of change in the development of humanity.”
Dr V Shanta, chairman, Cancer Institute, has worked closely with Dr Krishnamurthi in 1950s. “I first met him in the newly opened cancer OP in the Government General Hospital in 1949 as a final year medical student and then as a house surgeon in the cancer ward in 1950, my first posting as house surgeon,” she recalled.
“It will be virtually impossible to narrate details of human values and principles that he believed in and practiced in a few words.”
She presented a memento to the chief guest and the programme was concluded with the recital of the national anthem.