Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician) - Late Recognition

Late Recognition

An insulting silence carried on with every passing day. According to scientific records, Harsha (born 16 August 1986) become the first human test tube baby of India. The credit for this achievement went to T.C Anand Kumar, Director of IRR (ICMR). In 1997, he went to Kolkata to participate in a Science Congress. It was there that all the research documents of Mukhopadhyay were handed over to him. After meticulously scrutinising and having discussions with Durga’s parents, he became certain that Mukhopadhyay was the architect of first human test tube baby in India. This eminent scientist once mentioned in a journal on ‘A critique of Mukherjee ’s technique’The brief description given by Mukherjee in his letter dated 19 October 1978 to the Director of Health Services, Government of West Bengal, the reports he gave over the television interviews and reported in the lay press describe how Mukherjee carried out the procedure of in vitro fertilization.

On T.C. Anand Kumar’s initiative, Mukhopahdhyay was mentioned as the architect of first Indian test tube baby in a document related to the subject of artificial intercourse in ICMR. India’s first test tube baby “Durga”, whose parental name is Kanupriya Agarwal, works in a Multinational Company as a Marketing Executive in Delhi. On her 25th birthday she first exposed her identity in a ceremony organized in the memory of Mukhopahdhyay. She spoke about her creator in front of the media and proved once again that her creator’s claim was not bogus.

In the ‘Dictionary of Medical Biography,’ published by World Foundation, enlists names of 1100 Medical Scientists from 100 countries around the world for their path breaking contributions to the medical science. Only three names found their place in that dictionary from the city of Kolkata. The names are: Sir Ronald Ross, U.N. Bramhachari and Dr. Mukhopadhyay. What is more ridiculous is that after his death, in 1981, one by one three scientists Howard Jones, Gleicher and Trounson (Australia) in three separate research claimed the invention of Human test tube baby. All these three research were already successfully accomplished by Mukhopadhyay long before their time. One of these scientists even found his research published in the famous Journal Nature.

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