Noshir Hormasji Antia (8 February 1922 – 26 June 2007)[citation needed] was an Indian plastic surgeon and social worker, known for his pioneering contributions to the treatment and rehabilitation of people afflicted with leprosy.
[4] N. H. Antia was born on 8 February 1922 at Hubli, in northern Karnataka in India in a middle class Parsi family to Hormasji Merwanji and Soonamai and did hs schooling at his native place and the nearby Belgaum.
B. Wallace, who pioneered the treatment of burns,[7] during which period, he obtained a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons,[1] the degree (FRCS) conferred on him in 1952.
[1] This gave him the opportunity to get associated with Dr Bandorawalla Government Leprosy Hospital, Kondhwa where he practised reconstructive surgery among the leprosy patients which received attention from the State government who invited him to establish a department of plastic surgery at Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals.
[1] Antia married Arnie Noshir Batliwala on 6 October 1957, a year after his return from the UK, and the couple had two children, son, Rustom and daughter, Avan.
[8] In 1975, Antia gathered a few colleagues and founded the Foundation for Research in Community Health (FRCH), and started training local women of Mandwa and neighbouring villages of the Raigad district of Maharashtra,[9] preparing them to fight against water borne diseases, leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria and respiratory tract infections and taught them the values of family planning.