Anjani Kumar Sharma

Anjani Kumar Sharma was Nepal's first surgeon. He was born on 7 June 1928 in the remote Bhaluwahi region of Siraha District in the Terai of Nepal, where healthcare was scarce, and he lost his mother when he was eight years old, an event that inspired him to become a doctor. With help from his father and uncle he completed his MBBS at Calcutta Medical College in 1955, took an MS in surgery at Darbhanga Medical College in India and later earned the FRCS in the United Kingdom. He is credited with establishing the Surgery Department at Bir Hospital, Nepal's oldest hospital, and he also established the Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital. He chaired the Nepal Medical Association and was one of the five founding members of the Nepal Medical College in Jorpati. In 2009 he endowed a gold medal for the top surgery marks in the final MBBS examinations. He died in Kathmandu on 7 October 2014.