Under the study funded by the TTD's Sri Venkateswara Pranadanam Trust, over 100 patients were treated without any financial burden. Prasad and associate professor Ramesh Chandra V.V., at the BMJ South Asia award function held at New Delhi recently. Prasad, who started the spinal deformity programme, called it the 'magic of philanthropy' in shaping young lives and thanked the TTD's trust for supporting research programmes. | Photo Credit: SpecialArrangementmore-inA project submitted by Ramesh Chandra V.V., an associate professor of neurosurgery at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), stood a finalist in the prestigious International BMJ (British Medical Journal) South Asia Award for the year 2017, under the 'Surgical team of the year' category. SVIMS Director Dr.
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