Jaiveer Agarwal

Jaiveer Agarwal (24 September 1930 – 16 November 2009) was an Indian ophthalmologist^[1] and founder of Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital. He was the recipient of the Padma Bhushan for medicine from then President of India A P J Abdul Kalam in March 2006.^[2]

Life

Jaiveer Agarwal was born to the Sikh family of Dr. R.S. Agarwal. He married Tahira, who was also an ophthalmologist. The couple went to Madras, where they set up a small clinic. They had a daughter and a son.^{[citation needed]}

The Agarwals screened and operated on thousands of villages and campaigned for eye donations to treat corneal blindness, and correcting refractive errors among schoolchildren.^{[citation needed]}

Tahira Agarwal died in April 2009 and Jaiveer died on 16 November 2009.^{[citation needed]}

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