Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi

1. In 1943, Dr. M. C. Modi held his first mass eye camp at Pattan in Gujarat, beginning a campaign that would lead him to examine over 10 million patients by 2005.

2. 🌟 Modi performed an astonishing 833 cataract surgeries in a single day, a feat recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of eye surgeries by one doctor.

3. Born in Bilagi, Karnataka, in 1916, he was deeply influenced by Gandhi's Quit India speech in 1942, which redirected him from private practice to serving the blind poor across remote Indian villages.

4. He operated in an assembly line style, performing up to 40 surgeries per hour and attending to four patients simultaneously, using his ambidextrous skill to speed delicate eye operations.

5. 🌟 By 1993, Modi had visited 46,120 villages and treated over 12 million patients, performing more than 610,000 operations, largely funded by philanthropic donors.

6. In 1980, he established the M.C. Modi Charitable Eye Hospital in Bengaluru, which transitioned from mobile camps to a super-specialty hospital still active under his son’s leadership.

7. Modi served as a nominated member of the Karnataka Legislative Council in the 1990s, intertwining his medical mission with public service.

8. ❓ How did an Ayurvedic-trained eye surgeon from rural Karnataka achieve mass cataract cure on a scale unmatched by any Indian ophthalmologist before or since?