Awards
She won the ]. Dr. Shanta has dedicated the award to the institute.
The award citation is worth quoting to describe aptly Shanta's service. It reads in part:
"In an era when specialised medical care in India has become highly commercialised, Dr. Shanta strives to ensure that the Institute remains true to its ethos, `Service to all.' Its services are free or subsidised for some 60 per cent of its 100,000 annual patients Seventy-eight-year-old Shanta still sees patients, still performs surgery, and is still on call twenty-four hours a day."
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