PADMASHRI AND Dr B C Roy National Awardee, Dr KK Aggarwal, President Heart Care Foundation of India has come up with the major happenings in the field of health in the year 2011. Here we go:

January 24: Eminent Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi died of old age related ailments.

January 26: Renowned gynaecologist Indira Hinduja, cardiologist Jose Chacko Periappuram, orthopaedican S P Mandal, cardiologist Mansoor Hasan, endrocrinologist Sivapatham Vittal, gastroentrologist Madanaur Ahmed Ali and A Marthanda Pillai, a neurologist from Kerala were awarded Padma awards.

April 5: Anna Hazare held a fast from 5 April 2011 to 9 April 2011.

April 24: In Prashanti Nilayam Specialty Hospital, Sri Sathya Sai Baba died at 7.40 a.m. due to cardio-respiratory and multi organ failure. He was put terminally on prolonged ventilator.

May 16: The Union Health Ministry reconstituted the Board of Governors for the Medical Council of India with Professor K.K. Talwar, former Director, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh as the Chairman.

June 1:  44-year-old Sunita, got a heart transplant at Ganga Ram Hospital.

June 9: MF Hussain, one of India's best-known artists, died of a heart attack at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.
June 12: Baba Ram Dev was in the news because of failure of continuing Satyagraha for more than seven days despite being a Yogi. He broke his fast over black money on Jun 12 in Haridwar.

June 15: In Dehradun Swami Nigamanananda, an ascetic who valiantly fought against the stone quarries and pollution of River Ganga, by observing a fast for 114 days, died at Himalayan Institute of Medical Science. Ironically not even our national media had reported about his fast before his death.

August 4: Sonia Gandhi got treated in the US for an unknown illness.

August 14: Shammi Kapoor, a veteran Bollywood actor died of chronic renal failure at the age of 79 years.
August 20 -28: Anna Hazare did his fast at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. He lost 7.5 kg and was very dehydrated after the 288 hour long fast. Dr Naresh Trehan remained in the limelight of our media for treating Anna Hazare.

September 7: Amar Singh, a patient with kidney-transplant was sent to jail. Eleven people were killed and 62 injured in a powerful blast outside Delhi High Court gate.

September 23: Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who overcame an impaired eye to become a visionary and pioneering captain of the Indian Test team, died in Delhi at the age of 70.

October: Perfect Health Mela this year was organized at multiple locations.

November 5: Celebrated Indian folk singer and composer Bhupen Hazarika, known as the Bard of Brahmaputra, died at the age of 86.

November 11:  Fourteen persons died and 40 others suffered injuries when a major fire engulfed a congregation of eunuchs at a community centre in an East Delhi.

November 16: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan gave birth to a baby girl at the age of 38.

November 26: Yuvraj Singh remained in the news as he suffered lung tumour.

December 1:  Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran Rao became parents to a baby boy born to a surrogate mother.

December 3:  Dev Anand died in his room at The Washington Mayfair Hotel in London at the age of 88 (4 December 2011 by Indian Standard Time) of a cardiac arrest.

December 8-11: Emedinews brought out daily news letter for cardiological society of India 63rd annual conference.

December 9:  89 people, most of them patients, died when fire swept through Kolkata’s AMRI hospital.

December 13: Government postponed the NEET UG test by another year after opposition from several states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal, Goa etc.

December 21: The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Bill, 2010 was decided to be implemented in Delhi. Delhi is going to have three more new medical colleges.

December 23: The National Commission for Human Resources for Health Bill, 2011, to bring all independent bodies such as Medical Council of India (MCI), Dental Council of India (DCI), Pharmacy Council of India and Nursing Council of India under one umbrella, was passed.

December 24: The fear of Japanese Encephalitis was in the news. On Dec 24th, the government announced a national programme to the tune of nearly Rs 2,000 crore to combat Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in the upcoming Union budget.

December 27: Anna Hazare began a 3-day hunger strike at MMRDA grounds in Mumbai. Sachin Tendulkar was in news and again for his nervous nineties. At 36, star Shilpa Shetty became pregnant.

Last but not the least, Delhites had to face the coldest winter in last 10 years