‘Old age affecting work, job satisfaction missing’: Urologist credited with Kerala’s first cadaver transplant dies by suicide

His body was found at the farm house near Cochin international airport under Nedumbassery police limits. George has been head of the department of urology and renal transplant at VPS Lakeshore Hospital in Kochi.

According to police, he used to spend time at the farm house every Sunday. This Sunday, he came to the farm house accompanied by his brother but reportedly sent the latter back before he died by suicide.

Nedumbassery Station House officer K R Arun said: “We have recovered a ten-line suicide note purportedly written by the doctor, in which he said his is missing the job satisfaction. Due to old age, he cannot perform his duties perfectly. Besides, the doctor had recently undergone surgery and after that he, the note said, is facing health issues affecting his work as a doctor”.

The officer said the doctor had no financial woes, and his family has not raised any doubts about the death.

A doctor with over three decades of experience in performing endourological procedures, Dr George leaves behind an illustrious career in the medical world. He had 15,0000 endourological procedures in Kerala to his credit and he had performed 2,500 renal transplants.

He also had Kerala’s first Cadaver Transplant, percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL: a minimally invasive surgery that removes kidney stones) and Lap Donor Nephrectomy 3D laparoscopy to his credit and had successfully completed more than 8,000 laparoscopic urological procedures.

One of the doctors behind the first 3D laparoscopic urology workshop, ‘3D Lapendofusion’ in India, George was also active in the academic world.