Dr c palanivelu biography of rory

Indian surgeon

Dr. C Palanivelu is a well known surgeon in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

Biography

Palanivelu was born in a poor farmer family in a small village called Avarankattupudur in Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu.

Because of drought in his village and the resulting poverty, his family emigrated to Malaysia. There he worked as a daily-wage labour in a palm oil estate for 5 years.

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After returning to India, he was determined to rejoin school and completed his schooling at 21 years of age. During his young days, his sister died due to pneumonia at the age of 6 years. Due to lack of medical facilities, many villagers were untreated for their diseases and injuries and there were many deaths due to cancer.

These painful occurrences forced him to enroll for medicine.

His dream and willpower led him to overcome all the obstacles of life and finally he stepped in for medical studies at Stanley Medical College, Chennai at the age of 21 years in 1971.