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Gift from
Late Graham Baldwin
Mr. Baldwin was born in Hobart. He was educated at the Hutchins
School in Hobart, and at the University of Tasmania where he
graduated with a degree in engineering science in 1943. During
his professional career, Henry worked as an engineer with the
Tasmanian Government Railways in Launceston. Following his
retirement he was engaged in restoring ships that were
historically important in the development of Australia &
Tasmania.
Dr. Sankar Nath Sinha first met Graham Baldwin, as one of his
private patients in 1995 in St Johns Hospital. Mr. Baldwin
subsequently passed away at the age of eighty-eight in 2007 and
left a portion of his estate in his will as a gift (an amount of
Rs.3,41,84,897.00 equivalent to AUD820,000) to Dr. Sinha for the
purpose of continuing his voluntary medical work in India.
Dr. Sankar Sinha completed his MBBS course from R G Kar Medical
College, Calcutta, India in 1966. Following his graduation, he
worked as a junior doctor at the Upendranath Mukerjee Memorial
Hospital in Beleghata, an outer suburb of Calcutta, where he met
Dr. Pashupati Chatterjee, who was one of the Honorary visiting
surgeons at that hospital. Since then he has maintained a close
association with Dr. Chatterjee and has become involved with the
activities of the Tagore Society for Rural Development (TSRD)
mainly by raising funds and providing informal advice on the
organisation’s work in the health sector based on his own
experiences, working in Zambia and Papua New Guinea. Dr. Sinha
also contributed to the journal called “Sasthya O Paribesh”,
edited by Dr. Chatterjee, and wrote on issues such as hernia,
gall bladder disease and indigenous health in Australia.
After working in many parts of the world including India, Dr.
Sinha came to Tasmania in 1991 as a Senior Lecturer at the
University of Tasmania, where one of his key contributions was
establishing a Wound Care Clinic in the Royal Hobart Hospital
and later at the St. Johns Hospital. Dr. Sinha received the
highly prestigious Churchill Fellowship in 2001 and the Medal of
the Order of Australia for his contribution to medical education
and would care in 2005. He is currently a part-time staff
specialist at the Royal Hobart Hospital and Professor of Wound
Care, School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania in Hobart
and also Professor and Head of Anatomy at the University of
Notre Dame School of Medicine in Sydney.
In acknowledgment of Mr Baldwin’s generous donation, a section
of Rangabelia Hospital will be named after Graham Baldwin. A
portion of the donation will also be used to fund activities of
the Mahila Samithi in Rangabelia and this will be acknowledged
with a plaque dedicated to Dr Sinha’s late mother, Bijoli Sinha,
who inspired him to become a doctor.
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