Sarbeswar Sahariah

[1] He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of medicine.

[1][3] Sarbeswar Sahariah was born in a family with meagre financial resources, at Mangaldai on Tengabari Road,[3] a hilly village in the district of Darrang, in the Himalayan state of Assam, India, on 1 April 1945.

Saharaiah started his career as a Pool Officer under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research programme at the Renal Transplantation department of PGIMER, in 1976.

[1] Sahariah lives at Jubilee Hills, an upmarket residential neighbourhood in west Hyderabad, in the present day Telangana state, India, attending to his duties at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences in the city,[6][3] with his wife and two children, a son and a daughter.

He was associated with the first successful kidney transplantation in India, in 1973, while he was working at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.

[9] Sahariah's legacy lives on mainly in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh, where he has put in efforts for the propagation of renal transplantation programme.

[1][3][10] He has founded a charitable organization, North East Care Foundation, which runs a free medical clinic in Guwahati.

[2] He has also received many other awards and recognitions such as: Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha, Maharashtra, in 2000, honoured Sahariah by appointing him as the Professor Emeritus.