Magsaysay awardee Dr Prakash Amte hospitalised, undergoing treatment in Pune hospital

Noted social worker and Magsaysay award winner Dr Prakash Amte has been hospitalised in a private hospital in Pune. He is undergoing treatment and has been advised to rest.

TN City Desk

Updated Jun 14, 2022, 17:13 IST

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Pune: Magsaysay award-winner Dr Prakash Amte has been hospitalised in Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Pune. The 73-year-old renowned social worker has been diagnosed with the first stage of Hairy cell leukemia which is a rare, slow-growing cancer of the blood in which your bone marrow makes too many B cells (lymphocytes), a Pune Mirror report said.

Dr Amte developed a fever and cough while he was in Pune attending a convocation ceremony on June 8 at B J Medical College . He had complained of frequent fever for a week while he attended the convocation. He was then taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with Pneumonia, the family member told Pune Mirror.

He has undergone several tests and investigations and been advised complete rest, the family member added.

“After he was diagnosed with Pneumonia other tests were also performed. During this, he was found to be diagnosed with the first stage of Leukemia. He has been admitted for Pneumonia and he is improving. He is walking, and eating and there is nothing to worry. Once the pneumonia is cured later the treatment for cancer will be started,” said the family source to the newspaper.

In 2008, Dr Amte and his wife Mandakini received the Magsaysay award for community leadership for their philanthropic work in the form of Lok Biradari Prakalp among the Madia Gonds in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra and neighbouring states of Telangana and Madhya Pradesh.

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