<p>India’s leading ophthalmologist Dr Tatyarao Lahane, who has set a world record with 1.62 lakh-plus cataract surgeries, has retired from government service.</p>.<p>Dr Lahane retired on Wednesday as Director of the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) of Maharashtra after being in government service for 36 years.</p>.<p>In the past, he had also served as the Dean of Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals.</p>.<p>Dr TP Lahane holds the world record of conducting 1.62-lakh cataract surgeries.</p>.<p>In 2007, he completed the one-lakh mark of cataract surgeries and in 2008 was awarded the Padma Shri.</p>.<p>“I will continue to serve the people…I am not stopping as far as work is concerned,” Dr Lahane told DH on Thursday which coincides with National Doctors’ Day.</p>.<p>He said that he would work with the ophthalmology department of the Sir JJ Hospital at Byculla.</p>.<p>Dr Lahane was born in a small village named Makegaon in Renapur in Latur district of Maharashtra in a farmer's family on February 12, 1957, to Pundlikrao and Anjanabai.</p>.<p>Dr Lahane started his career at the Ambejogai Hospital. At a young age, both of his kidneys failed and his mother donated one of her kidneys to him. He underwent a kidney transplant surgery on February 22, 1995, in Mumbai.</p>.<p>It is Dr Lahane who gave India the advanced phacoemulsification technology.</p>.<p>He has also reached all remote places — by way of thousands of camps — within Maharashtra through surgical camps to treat patients who are unable to travel to the hospital for their ailment.</p>.<p>Despite the kidney transplant and being on medicines, Dr Lahane works for over 14 hours daily.</p>.<p>During the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, he played a key role as a part of the core team that is advising Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.</p>.<p><strong>Check out DH latest videos:</strong></p>
<p>India’s leading ophthalmologist Dr Tatyarao Lahane, who has set a world record with 1.62 lakh-plus cataract surgeries, has retired from government service.</p>.<p>Dr Lahane retired on Wednesday as Director of the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) of Maharashtra after being in government service for 36 years.</p>.<p>In the past, he had also served as the Dean of Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals.</p>.<p>Dr TP Lahane holds the world record of conducting 1.62-lakh cataract surgeries.</p>.<p>In 2007, he completed the one-lakh mark of cataract surgeries and in 2008 was awarded the Padma Shri.</p>.<p>“I will continue to serve the people…I am not stopping as far as work is concerned,” Dr Lahane told DH on Thursday which coincides with National Doctors’ Day.</p>.<p>He said that he would work with the ophthalmology department of the Sir JJ Hospital at Byculla.</p>.<p>Dr Lahane was born in a small village named Makegaon in Renapur in Latur district of Maharashtra in a farmer's family on February 12, 1957, to Pundlikrao and Anjanabai.</p>.<p>Dr Lahane started his career at the Ambejogai Hospital. At a young age, both of his kidneys failed and his mother donated one of her kidneys to him. He underwent a kidney transplant surgery on February 22, 1995, in Mumbai.</p>.<p>It is Dr Lahane who gave India the advanced phacoemulsification technology.</p>.<p>He has also reached all remote places — by way of thousands of camps — within Maharashtra through surgical camps to treat patients who are unable to travel to the hospital for their ailment.</p>.<p>Despite the kidney transplant and being on medicines, Dr Lahane works for over 14 hours daily.</p>.<p>During the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, he played a key role as a part of the core team that is advising Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.</p>.<p><strong>Check out DH latest videos:</strong></p>