Dr.Baskar Gupta
Dr. Bhaskar Gupta
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure”
- by V.Subbu
“There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.”
Dr Bhaskar is a person who makes things happen in any event or organization he represents.
This has been the attitude of Dr Bhaskar Gupta, Pediatrician and Neonatologist and Medical Director at Yiaco Apollo Medical Center in Kuwait. With a constant Endeavour to achieve and attain the path to success through hard work he has indeed reached the level in professional and family life that most people dream of. (There are another two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there!.)
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure” he says.
Having been born to the illustrious well educated and disciplined parents at Nagpur in Maharashtra India, the qualities of dedication and striving towards perfection is deeply imbibed in his upbringing. His Father Mr Ramgopal did his MA, B.CoM and LLB in the year 1940 and was the Civil Judge apart from being deeply religious and philanthropist was a well know figure amongst the legal fraternity. His grandfather was the freedom fighter for the independence of India and maternal uncle the Member of Parliament influenced him in his upbringing.
With the schooling at St. Francis De sales secondary school in Nagpur, the firm background for education and discipline was deeply rooted. He got the merit scholarship and did his graduation MBBS from prestigious Mayo General Hospital and Indira Gandhi Government Medical college at Nagpur. Academic and cultural activities was the main thrust right from college days, he became the Cultural secretary for the Student association at the Medical College and arranged many successful programme during his tenure.
Having completed his Masters degree M.D in Pediatrics in the year 1989 with a research topic that received awards at various national conferences, he moved to join the intensive care unit of Central India Institute of Medical Sciences at Nagpur.
Teaching the undergraduate MBBS students was his passion which led him to join and head the Pediatrics department at NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Lata Mangeshkar Hospital at Nagpur where he worked as Lecturer and then Associate Professor in Pediatrics. He trained the students for Final MBBS and was the examiner for the same.
“I loved my work as an Associate professor, a clinician and the enormous responsibility of setting the Pediatric Department in the medical college. This gave me insight of the administrative and leadership skills. During this time I got attached to various organizations doing service to the society- one of which was Indian Society for Adoption Vaardan- which had opened up its branch in the medical college as an orphanage. Deeply involved in the planning and running of the orphanage and the medical care of such children was very satisfying especially when giving these children for adoption to childless couples that brought smiles to the entire family Having worked as the in charge of Baby friendly hospital initiative in the district and organized various conferences for the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, I was nominated to the executive council of IAP.” -he says.
With the motto of further enhancement of the specialization, as he got the opportunity to join Neonatology which is the care of extreme preterm babies, he started his training as Neonatologist in the famous Royal Hospital which is the biggest tertiary care facility in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. Subsequent he worked as Pediatrician and Neonatologist with Ministry of Health, Oman’s prestigious hospital Khoula Hospital at Muscat for 10 years.
What a gratifying experience to be a part of the team of Neonatolgists to take postoperative highly advanced neonatal care for a rare surgical conjoined twins at Royal hospital in 1995 reported to be the first of its kind in Middle East. With Ministry of Health in Oman providing an ideal platform to do research in Neonatology, he got the opportunity to do many such studies and reported many rare birth defects in international journals.
The result of this hard work was that he received the award of best Presentation in research at the 12th and 14th International child health conference in Muscat Oman in 1999 and 2001. The 14 research papers were published in reputed international medical journals like Oman Medical Journal, Annals of Saudi Medicine, Indian Pediatrics, Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and Kuwait Medical Journal. Not only writing on his own research papers, he is the reviewer of various medical journals for medical articles in Oman Medical Journal.
With the background of medical teaching and research, he started various training programme in Basic Life support, Lactational management and Neonatal resuscitation programme for the Ministry of Health Khoula Hospital, Oman.
When the opportunity to establish the Indian based Apollo Hospital group in Kuwait came as Yiaco Apollo Medical Center he took this challenge and joined in 2004. Tirelessly from nothing to a well established Pediatric clinic with all the modern facilities for care was the result of this planned development. With this achievement he was promoted and given the responsibility as Medical Director of Yiaco Apollo Medical Center since the year 2009. The effect of this was that Yiaco Apollo progressed rapidly with addition of many departments, medical equipments and an entirely new look modern renovated premises serving the community and thereby becoming the prestigious successfully running medical center in Kuwait.
A quest to know the recent advances in the field of Pediatrics and Neonatology led him to travel to various countries like Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Singapore to attend the international symposiums and present his research articles which were widely appreciated.
He is well trained in Neonatal resuscitation from Indo US Illinois Chicago and also had the Lactational Management training, Total quality management practices training. With a wide experience in Pediatrics and an excellent speaker he has been a speaker in various school and community based programme on medical topics in Kuwait. One of his favorite fields is Adolescent growth and problems, with peer pressure, drug addiction, behavioral and psychological problems, this is a very challenging time for the adolescent and parents and proper medical guidance and knowledge is essential to achieve a resourceful youth of today. He has been a speaker on the topics on Adolescent and vaccination in most of the schools in Kuwait.
His wife the eminent Obstetrician and Gynecologist Dr Rajni Gupta who has qualified with MBBS and MD from MLN Medical College Allahabad and then MRCOG- Member of Royal college of obstetrics and Gynecology from UK is a Consultant at Al Seef Hospital In Kuwait. She has received her training at Nottingham and Chester in U. K. and has worker at the prestigious Royal Hospital in Muscat Oman for 8 years. Dr Rajni is obstetrician par excellence with good clinical and operative skills, patient care and humane approach towards clinical medicine. Apart from this she is a versatile painter, admirer of dance and music and is member of various organizations where her contribution for society is well appreciated.
She is the inspiration and motivation for all the achievements of Dr Bhaskar and has been instrumental in participating in all the curricular and extracurricular activities.
Dr Bhaskar is blessed with 2 daughters- the Elder Kriti Gupta who has been a meritorious student all throughout her career having topped in the CBSE Board exams from Don Bosco School Kuwait, and is now in her 3rd year of MBBS in India. She received an honors for the subject of Anatomy in her 1st year itself and has been nominated as Ms JNMC outstanding medical student of the year. Younger daughter Kanchi Gupta is in her Xth Standard at Don Bosco school in Kuwait- she is a versatile personality in dance, music, swimming and excellent anchor for all school programmes.
Being the Medical Director of Yiaco Apollo, he was instrumental in organizing the 5th Anniversary of Yiaco Apollo Medical Center, where all the 105 employees right from cleaner to the Medical Director actively participated and were on the stage performing and enjoying the taste of success together.
Dr Bhaskar is an active member and contributor for the Indian Doctors Forum in Kuwait and has held the positions of Joint Treasurer and Treasurer from 2006 to 2010 and now is the executive member for the same. He has been actively involved in all the health camps, cultural and member associated activities of the Indian doctor’s forum in Kuwait. His articles on various aspects of health care have been regularly published in the Annual Health guide of Indian Doctors forum that has been very useful for the community.
Apart from this he is Life member of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Life Member Academy of Medical Sciences, Nagpur India, Member Oman Medical Society, Muscat, Oman, Member Kuwait Institute of Medical Specializations (KIMS), Kuwait Kuwait Medical Association and Life member of Arab Pediatric Pulmonology association.
· If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else.
With this philosophy in mind Dr Bhaskar has been on the forefront to help a lot of people in distress in Kuwait and in India. His dream is to give back and be in service for his motherland with all his rich experience inherited during the last 25 years of his career. It pains him to see that inspite of development in India the infant mortality and childhood mortality still is very high and the affordable medical care to the needy is still not prevalent. If I am able to contribute towards betterment in this regard it will be the ultimate dream fulfilled for me – he says.
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