DR UDAY MAHORKAR

Offers comprehensive pediatric care

It is a matter of pride & privilege to notice that Dr. Uday Bodhankar has contributed immensely for the welfare of children & mothers ever since his early professional career for more than 40 years as evident from his curriculum vitae.

Dr. Bodhankar has excelled all through his academic career, and keen to ensure that all children must enjoy a good quality of life through better neonatal & childhood care. He strived hard as a Pediatrician and as a social worker.

In those various vital positions that he held & currently holding, he has not only promoted child health Care & maternal care but also strived hard for the welfare of under privilege (BPL) community. The health scenario of maternal & neonatal care is extremely vital to control the staggeringly high neonatal mortality in developing countries, including India.

Through his current position EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – Commonwealth Association for Health & Disability (UK), he is in a position to assist more than 54 commonwealth countries especially the developing ones all over the world, in controlling birth asphyxia that is a leading cause of neonatal death & morbidity.

Till now over a period of 40 years he has organized various National and International Workshops related to Newborn & child health and disability with the help of WHO, UNICEF, Ministry of Health, Govt of India, and in collaboration with USA universities like UIC Chicago and with the University of Sydney Australia.

He has been awarded the outstanding pediatrician of Asia award in China in Oct. 2009, being the First Indian child specialist to have this highest Asian unique honor of being selected from 23 Asian countries of the world for his distinguished service for the welfare of newborn and children of Asia.

He has been the first pediatrician from Asia, who has the rare distinguished honor of being invited by Her Majesty the Queen of England at Buckingham Palace, London and was honored by Queen Elizabeth as the first Asian secretary-general of Commonwealth Association for Health & Disability (UK) on 28th April 2009.

Honorable President of India her Excellency Dr. Smt. Pratibhatai Devising Patil also complimented Dr. Uday Bodhankar for his outstanding child welfare work.

He has been Co-Author and contributor to many textbooks in pediatric and neonatology like “ Rational Pediatric Practice “ an official publication of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics – a recognized referral book for practitioners.& contributed many articles related to child health in regional and National/International News Papers and Periodicals.