Biography

Professor Dhananjaya Sharma

Professor and Head of the Department in Department of Surgery, Government Medical College and Allied Hospitals, affiliated to MP Medical Sciences University, Jabalpur (MP), India

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Professor Dhananjaya Sharma is Head of the Department in Department of Surgery, Government Medical College and Allied Hospitals, affiliated to MP Medical Sciences University, Jabalpur (MP), India. For last many years, he has been increasingly drawn to “Global Surgery” and was trying to contribute to finding low-cost surgical solutions to achieve health equity for underserved populations. Professor Sharma is committed to lifelong activism and campaigning for ‘appropriate technology for health-care in developing world’ which is need based for local population, available at grass root levels, affordable, cost-effective, provides value-for-money, easy to maintain, sensitive to cultural-social-religious difference in society, understood by locals and involves locals in its co-creation. Professor Sharma considers himself truly blessed to be able to ‘make a difference’ by working in resource-poor setting for last three and half decades.

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