Dr H S Adenwalla MS. Missionary, Doctor, and Surgeon

Abstract

Dr Hirji Adenwalla, a well-known and much-loved surgeon, distinguished for his expertise as a cleft surgeon, died on the 27th May 2020. He worked from 1959 till his death, at the Jubilee Mission Hospital, Trichur, Kerala, South India. When asked why he had left Bombay, where he was brought up and trained, for a small mission hospital, he said initially he had wanted to go further afield, to Africa to work with Albert Schweitzer or Boston to further his paediatric surgical expertise, but with a new young wife was told the furthest he could go was India.