Who is the first test tube baby in India? When was an Indian doctor successful in this case?

An Indian doctor was recognized as the creator of the first tube-born baby (Durga) in India and the second in the world. Unfortunately, he was harassed by the West Bengal bl00d sucking communist government and the Indian government while sharing his research results with the international scientific community and was not allowed to share his achievements with the international scientific community. Hindered and frustrated, he was forced to commit suicide in 1981.

On June 19, 1981, teacher Namita Mukherjee was returning from school. She lived with her doctor husband in a sixth-floor flat on South Avenue in Kolkata. But Namita Devi was not at all prepared for what she saw when she opened the door of the flat. The hanging body of her husband was hanging from the ceiling. He found a suicide note with him | It read “I couldn’t wait for death due to a heart attack”.

Who was this doctor?

Born on January 16, 1931 in Hazaribagh, Bihar, he spent his student life first at Scottish Church College. Later, in 1955, he obtained his MBBS degree from Calcutta National Medical College. In the same year, he graduated with honors in physiology from Calcutta University. In 1958, he obtained his first PhD degree in reproductive physiology from Rajabazar Science College. Then he received his second PhD degree in 1967 from the University of Edinburgh by discovering a new method of measuring luteinizing hormone. Then he joined the Nilratan Sarkar Medical College in Kolkata as a professor. At that time, research on tubal ligation was going on vigorously in various laboratories around the world. Dr. Mukherjee did not have any state-of-the-art equipment or ideal laboratory. He only had talent and an indomitable determination to discover something new. He got cryobiologist Dr. Sunit Mukherjee and gynecologist Dr. Saroj Kanti Bhattacharya by his side. From 1967 to 1976— Dr. Subhash Mukherjee built a laboratory in NR for nine long years. He was always obsessed with making ground breaking discoveries. He met the Agarwal couple of the Banedi Marwari family through a friend. Even after twelve years of marriage, they were childless. However, after a few days of treatment, Bela Devi could not get pregnant. After testing, Subhash Babu found that both of Bela Devi's fallopian tubes were blocked. He then wanted to test his new research 'Test Tube Baby' on the couple.

On 3 October 1978, Dr. Mukherjee achieved success just before Durga Puja. Durga alias Kanupriya Agarwal was born. India's and Asia's first and the world's second test tube child. The first test tube child, Lewis Brown, was born just 67 days ago in England. In contrast to the modern equipment there, there was a simple refrigerator and a spacious laboratory in Kolkata. He sent the entire research paper to the International Hormone Steroid Congress (New Delhi) and the Indian Journal of Cryogenics. Then there was a commotion in the medical community. But then the humiliation of Dr. Subhash Mukherjee began. He did not receive any recognition for his work. He was ostracized from the workplace and society. Although Robert Edwards received the Nobel Prize for his discovery in 2010, Dr. Subhash Mukherjee faced neglect and humiliation in his own country after the discovery. The allegations against Dr. Subhash Mukherjee were serious - why did he tell the media about his research without informing the bureaucrats of the department? How did he do this work with minimal materials in his small laboratory, where others could not do it even with many modern equipment? The Left Front government in West Bengal at that time. On 18 November 1978, the government formed an expert committee under the Medical Association. At the top of it was a radio physicist and the members included a gynecologist, a psychologist, a physicist and a neurologist. These members had no idea about modern reproductive technology. The expert committee practically humiliated and harassed Dr. Mukherjee by asking many irrelevant questions. The committee ultimately ruled that “Everything that Dr. Mukherjee claims is bogus.” In 2010, ‘The Dictionary of Medical Biography’ was published, recording the discoveries of 1,100 medical scientists from 100 countries around the world. The book also included the discoveries of two Indian medical scientists. They were Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari and Dr. Subhash Mukherjee. His life and death have been the subject of various newspaper reviews and inspired the Bollywood Hindi film ‘Ek Daktar Ki Maut’ (1990) directed by Tapan Sinha.

The whole story depicts government apathy for science and technology and too much politics in every domain.

Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician) - Wikipedia

Indian physician (1931–1981) Subhash Mukherjee (16 January 1931 – 19 June 1981) was an Indian scientist and physician who created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation , Kanupriya Agarwal (Durga), who was born in 1978, just 70 days after Louise Brown , the first IVF baby in United Kingdom . [ 1 ] Afterwards, Dr. Subhash Mukherjee was harassed by the then Government of West Bengal and Government of India and was not allowed to share his achievements with the international scientific community. [ 2 ] Dejected, he committed suicide on 19 June 1981. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His life and death has been the subject of newspaper reviews and inspired the Hindi movie Ek Doctor Ki Maut (Death of a Doctor, 1990), directed by Tapan Sinha . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He was born to a Bengali Brahmin family on 16 January 1931 in Hazaribagh , Bihar and Orissa Province (now in Jharkhand ), India. He studied BSc (Hons.) in Physiology (1949) from University of Calcutta . He then studied MBBS (1955) from the Calcutta National Medical College , which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta . [ 7 ] He later earned a PhD (1958) from the Rajabazar Science College campus of University of Calcutta in 'Reproductive Physiology' under the stewardship of Prof. Sachchidananda Banerjee. Later he earned his second PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1967 in 'Reproductive Endocrinology'. After completing his MBBS from Calcutta National Medical College , he worked as a Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Physiology at NRS Medical College, Kolkata from 1967 to 1975. While working with Sunit Mukherji, a Cryobiologist and Gynecologist Dr. Saroj Kanti Bhattacharya, he became the first physician in India (and second in the world, following British physicians Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards ) to perform the in vitro fertilisation resulting in a test tube baby "Durga" (alias Kanupriya Agarwal) on 3 October 1978. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He faced hostility from the Government of West Bengal [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and refusal of the Government of India to allow him to attend international conferences. [ 12 ] The Bengal government had appointed a panel headed by a radiophysicist – with a gynaecologist, a neurophysiologist and a physiologist as members – to examine the claims by Mukerji. The committee members were Dr. Mrinal Kumar Dasgupta, Chairman Radio-Astronomer (Calcutta University), Dhiren Kundu, Nuclear Physicist (Saha Institute), Dr. J C Chatterjee, Gynecologist and Dr. Ajit Maiti, Neurophysiology (Calcutta University). [ 13 ] Mukhopadhyay committed suicide in his Calcutta residence on 19 June 1981 after he was humiliated and insulted by the committee. [ 5 ] [ 12 ] [ 14 ] His recognition is attributable to T. C. Anand Kumar who is credited to be the mastermind behind India's second (officially the first) test-tube baby. Kumar came to the conclusion that he was not the first after reviewing Subhash Mukhopadhyay's personal notes. He was ably helped by Sunit Mukherji, who was

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Subhas Mukherjee pioneered IVF in India. But the government refuted his work

India's first test tube baby was born less than 3 months after the world's first IVF baby. But Mukherjee was mocked, shunned by peers as his work wasn't published in a scientific paper.

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