Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh rose from very humble beginnings. He was just 13 years old when he lost his father, Gyan Singh, in 1979.
After his father’s death, his family lived in extreme poverty.
“Along with my elder brothers, I sold homemade soaps and was often insulted when I asked for settling our dues,” he recalled.
Things began to turn around in 1982 when his older brothers pitched in to pay for Singh’s medical entrance exams. He went on to earn an M.B.B.S (an international medical degree equivalent to an M.D. in the US) from Banaras Hindu University in 1988, a Master of Surgery in 1991 and a Master of Chirurgiae in plastic surgery in 1994.
In 2001, Dr. Singh established GS Memorial Plastic Surgery Hospital in the memory of his father to provide state of the art reconstructive plastic surgery to the needy patients at a very affordable cost.
The hospital partnered with Smile Train, a charity providing corrective surgery for children with cleft lips and palates.
“Since 2008-09, we annually perform 4,000-plus free cleft surgeries under this initiative,” Dr. Singh said.
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