Fortis doc Minz gets Padma Shri

Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 13

Fortis Hospital doctor Prof Mukut Minz, transplant surgeon and director – Renal and Pancreas Transplant Surgery, was honoured with the prestigious Padma Shri for his contribution to the field of medicine. The President of India conferred Prof Minz with the award during a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan today.

Prof Minz had joined the PGI, Chandigarh, in 1980 and has over 30 years of experience in transplant surgery. He was elevated to the post of Senior Professor in 2008 and became a member of the governing body of the PGI in 2015. He received advanced training in cadaver organ retrieval and transplantation at various centres/universities of Oslo, Norway; Gothenburg, Sweden; Heidelberg, Germany; Munich, Germany; Minnesota, Minneapolis-US.

He set up a new department of Renal Transplant Surgery in the PGI and performed over 3,300 kidney transplants.

Dr Minz successfully established combined kidney-pancreas transplant programme for Type 1 diabetics with kidney failure in the PGI, which is currently a leading pancreas transplant centre in North India. Under his mentorship, the department also performed several complicated dialysis access procedures (AV Fistulas for hemodialysis).

He recently led the medical team at the AIIMS-New Delhi that carried out the kidney transplant of Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. He has trained over 30 transplant surgeons, many of whom are holding academic positions in India, US, UK and Australia, and has been a visiting professor in various universities in India and conferred several awards and honours.