Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta (1905 to 1997) was an Indian surgeon, institution builder and medical academic who established the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai. His contributions are also reported in the establishment of the Tata Memorial Centre and of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi. In 1971 the Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour of the country, for his contributions to medicine. The lead of the source article gives only these outline facts, so this entry sets out his dates, his work as a surgeon and academic, the hospital he established, the national institutions linked with his name and the honour he received, without further detail that the source does not support.
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was an Indian surgeon
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established the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai
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