Ludhiana: CMC intern Rohini Dutta bags 'Women of Future Award'

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 3

A MBBS intern from the Christian Medical College (CMC) here has done Ludhiana proud. Rohini Dutta has been awarded the Women of the Future Awards (WOTFA) India-2021 for her contribution to the field of blood transfusion and scaling access to caesarean delivery in low-resource settings.

Rohini was the lone recipient from Punjab and was among 50 awardees from 400 nominees across three countries to receive the prestigious award announced at a virtual ceremony live-streamed on December 26.

The awards were announced by the WOTFA chairperson Nandita Om Puri and founder Sweety Soni.

“I am humbled and proud of receiving the prestigious honour for my service to society,” the elated recipient of the WOTFA India-2021 told The Tribune, here on Monday.

Sharing her success story, Rohini said: “I’m growing up in a digital world and has served as past president of the Asian Medical Students’ Association India 2019-20 where I led a nationwide campaign with the Indian Development Foundation on menstrual hygiene providing free menstrual hygiene products and sanitation napkins to over 500 girls in the reproductive age across the country.”

She is also a Global Surgery Fellow at the World Health Organisation (WHO) collaborating centre for research in surgical care delivery in low-middle-income countries, including India, where her work focuses on increasing access to alternative strategies of blood transfusion and scaling access to caesarean delivery in low-resource settings.

Rohini is the Regional Youth Champion for the South East Asia region at Lancet Commission and Financial Times Governing Health Futures 2030.

Rohini will be joining the Harvard Medical School Programme for Global Surgery and Social Change in July this year.

The awardees

Rohini Dutta (Punjab), Dr Neela Bhattacharya (West Bengal), Lt Supriya Choudhary (New Delhi), Kalyani Sachan (Haryana), Kasthuri Manivannan (Tamil Nadu), Dr Swati Bijawat (Uttar Pradesh), Divya Jithin (Kerala), Nandini Tanya Lallmon (Mauritius), Pratibha Sharma (Uttar Pradesh), Dr Darshana Soni (Madhya Pradesh), Dr Sushma Bissa (Rajasthan), Manisha Bhatt (Karnataka), Taruna Pundeer (New Delhi), Akatya Vidushi Sinha (Maharashtra), Shilpa Bhati (Rajasthan), Dr Shradha Vasisht (New Delhi), Shruti Bist (Uttar Pradesh), Nidhi Chapekar (Maharashtra), Manisha Ratilal Bagul (Maharashtra), Dr Richa Seth Singh (New Delhi), Chubashini Amirtham (Malaysia), Sheril Gupta (Rajasthan), Dr Ganji Bhagyalaxmi (Telangana), Dr Bharti Prakash (Rajasthan), Roli Srivastava (Uttar Pradesh), Sindhu Dholpure (Madhya Pradesh), Shibani Ghosh (Madhya Pradesh), Dr Meenakshi Sukumaran (New Delhi), Ragini Tripathi (Gujarat), Kavya Choudhary (Rajasthan), Hemlata Gaytri (Rajasthan), Aditi Brahmbhatt (Rajasthan), Vinita Mewada (Madhya Pradesh), Chandni Seth Kochar (New Delhi), Bessy Titus (Kerala), Natasha Lohiya (Rajasthan), Dr Manjushri Gupta (Rajsthan), Dr Ruchira Solanki (Rajasthan), Dr Mamta Sharma (Rajasthan), Yogini Prashant Kulkarni (Karnataka), Asha Punglia (Rajasthan), Jayasri Krishnan (Chennai), Dr Snehal Dilip Lunawat (Maharashtra), Swati Khandelwal (Maharashtra), Nishtha Agarwal (Rajasthan), Deepti Asawa (Rajasthan), Dr Lata Suresh (Haryana) and Asha Lalchandani (Rajasthan).

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