Covid-19: Family of US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to send medical supplies to Karnataka’s hospitals

This essential medical equipment will be dispatched to 12 hospitals in two districts that are facing a shortage of equipment. He said taluk hospitals and two Primary Health Care (PHCs) were selected for this.

Vasanth, one of Murthy’s cousins in Bengaluru, said that the medical equipment will be supplied to Murthy’s native village Hallegere in Mandya and also to Maddur, Malavalli, Nagamangla and other places in the state. He also said that there are plans to build a Covid ward at the cost of Rs 1 crore.

Last year, following Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential elections, Indian-American Dr Vivek Murthy was appointed as the United States Surgeon General. Murthy, who also served under the Barack Obama administration as the Surgeon General, has roots in Hallegere village of Mandya district in Karnataka. He is the grandson of HT Narayan Shetty, a backward class leader and an aide of former Chief Minister D Devaraj Urs.

Dr Murthy has over two decades of experience serving as a physician, research scientist, and former Vice Admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Born on July 10, 1977 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Murthy was brought up in Miami where his parents moved when he was three-years-old. His parents, who were also medical practitioners, hail from Karnataka.

Murthy did his schooling at Miami Palmetto Senior High School before attending Harvard for his Bachelor’s degree. He later completed his MD and MBA degrees from Yale. He completed his residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he later joined the faculty as an internal medicine physician and instructor.

From the homepage

Bihar SIR: Voter list shrinks by 6% after 3-month revision, about 68.5 lakh names deleted

Stalin’s caution in sparing Vijay backfires, actor issues challenge to CM: ‘Do whatever you want to do with me’

‘Had two options before me after winning elections…’: Omar says he would rather resign than get statehood with BJP as ally