Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay

Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay is an orthopaedic surgeon in Dehradun, and director of the Sanjay Orthopaedic, Spine and Maternity Centre on Rajpur Road. He was named for the Padma Shri in 2021 in the field of medicine, from Uttarakhand ^[1].

Training

Sanjay was born on 31 August 1956 ^[2]. After his orthopaedic training in India he took further training and fellowships in Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, the United States, Australia and Russia ^[2]. He has presented more than 100 papers at conferences and lectured at universities in several countries ^[2]. He was the founding president of the Uttaranchal chapter of the Indian Orthopaedic Association ^[2].

In the record books

In 2005 he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for removing the largest bone tumour on record, a growth on the thigh bone weighing 16.5 kg ^[2]. The Limca Book of Records listed his work in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2009, including a hip replacement for a 98-year-old patient and spine surgery on an 88-year-old man ^[2].

Free care

Over a 40-year career he has carried out more than 5,000 operations on children disabled by polio and cerebral palsy, often at free camps ^[2]. He has run more than 200 free health camps in remote hill areas, which earned a place in the India Book of Records in 2017 ^[2]. He offers free weekly consultations to families below the poverty line and has sent his patients a free monthly health newspaper since 2014 ^[2].

Road safety

Having treated many people hurt in road accidents, he has run a public awareness campaign on road safety since 2002, speaking on All India Radio, Doordarshan and FM radio and writing for newspapers ^[2].