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|birth_date = 1 November 1896
|birth_place = [[Jessore (city)|Jessore]], [[Bangladesh]]
|death_date = 5 September 1961
|death_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]
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|citizenship = India
|nationality = Indian
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|fields = [[Obstetrics and Gynecology]]
|workplaces = [[University of Calcutta]]<br/>[[R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital]] which was then known as ''Carmichael Medical College''
|alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]]<br/>[[Berlin University]]
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'''Dr. Subodh Mitra''' [[M.D.]], [[F.R.C.S.]], [[F.R.C.O.G.]] (1896-1961) was an eminent [[obstretrician]] and [[gynecologist]] in [[India]].<ref>Dr. Subodh Mitra, by Purandare C.N and Patel Madhuri, Indian Contribution to Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ''The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India'', 2011, 61; 384-5.</ref> He is the founder of the "Mitra operation" for [[cervical cancer]].

==Brief biography==
He was born on 1 November 1896 in [[Jessore (city)|Jessore]] (presently in Bangladesh). He graduated from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1922. He saw the plight of female patients as an undergraduate and took up the Obstetrics and Gynecology as his career. He has gone to Germany and completed post graduation in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2 years. He got M.D. from [[Berlin University]] in 1924. He went to [[Edinburgh]] and did his [[Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons]] (F.R.C.S.) in 1925 and F.R.C.O.G. in 1928.

He returned to India and started working in [[R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital]] in [[Calcutta]] as Resident Surgeon and Assistant Superintendent. He became the director of Chittaranjan Seva Sadan and Principal of its College of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Child Health, Calcutta. He was appointed as Dean of the faculty of Medicine and member of the Senate of the Academic council of the University of Calcutta. He became the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director at [[R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital]], Calcutta. He was later appointed as Vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta in 1960.

He was awarded [[Honoris causa]] of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Society of Germany and Italy for his scientific contribution in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

He built Chittaranjan Cancer Hospital in 1950 with handsome donation to Deshbandhu Memorial Trust in Calcutta.<ref>[http://smchrc.org/subodh.html Our Idol: Subodh Mitra at Subodh Mitra Cancer Hospital and Research Center.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711015226/http://www.smchrc.org/subodh.html |date=11 July 2012 }}</ref> Nobel laureate [[Madam Curie]] inaugurated this hospital.

He died on 5 September 1961 in [[Vienna]] while attending the 3rd International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

==Mitra operation==
Dr. Mitra developed a technique in the surgery of [[Cervical cancer]]. His technique was well appreciated world over. The technique developed by Dr. S. Mitra for Cancer Cervix Operation namely Extended Radical Vaginal [[Hysterectomy]] with Extraperitoneal Lymphadenectomy was officially announced in British, American and German gynecological conferences. He demonstrated this technique in Vienna in 1952. This has been published in a monograph "Mitra Operation for Cancer of the Cervix" simultaneously by Charles C. Thomas, U.S.A. and [[Ryerson Press]], Toronto and [[Blackwell Scientific Publications]], Oxford.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=KFx5QgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Mitra Operation for Cancer of the Cervix: Extraperitoneal Pelvic Lymphadenectomy and Radical Vaginal Hysterectomy, Americal Lecture series no. 364, Thomas, 1960]

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[[Category:Indian gynaecologists]]
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[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni]]
[[Category:Vice Chancellors of the University of Calcutta]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian medical doctors]]

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