Born on 23 january 1949, Dr. N.K. Mansetta completed his DLO in 1976 and MS ENT in 1977 under guidance of Dr. P.N. Ranade sir.
Sir joined Shardaben Municipal Hospital in 1980 and in his initial 5 years he worked in challengingly primitive conditions and alone.
He worked in era with Dr. C.F. Shah and Dr Dutt sir who were associated with other municapal run hospitals.
The then superintendent Dr I R Joshi sir at Shardaben hospital was instrumental in getting microscope with sir for developing microscopic ear surgery.
Dedication of Mansetta sir was such that sir received memorandum / complain letter when sir worked till late hours of 2:30, quite surprisingly.
He developed his private practice at clinics one in paldi and other one in bapunagar/ samjhu ba trust run hospital, it was a small setup with a dermatology and pathology set up but with sir joining it, it very soon turned to multispeciality hospital.
Sir indeed had a lion's share in development of department of ENT like gathering 1 crore in those times or be it grant efforts from then M.P Mr. Brahm kumar bhatt and contributions from municipal commissioner Mr Keshav Varma.
This led him to be the first one to receive microscope attached with cctv and monitor system from BHEL company - a boon to students in that time who could view and learn otology from sir.
The noble and absolutely noteworthy effort was to establish the very first BSL audiology college for speech and hearing pathologist with Dr. Mallikarjun.
"UMANG SCHOOL" his hard earned dream come reality which stands tall since 25 years, working relentlessly for the deaf and mute, providing vocational guidance as well for a more inclusive sense of rehabilitation.
Savarkundla sir's native place, he expressed his gratitude for the place by developing 110 bed hospital with 200 plus staff which has served more than 27 lakh people till date and is working completely free of cost.
Sir had been humble enough to give honorary services at shardaben hospital at surprisingly Rs 100/- for minimum 30 years and the core emotion of service for the needy has been his constant motivation.
He has been a visionary and continues to have a vision now that his hospital at savarkundla soon have a medical college solely for needy intelligent yet unaffordable candidates for free medical education.
Inspiring students to aim excellence sir has played pivotal role to initiate "Dr. P.N. Ranade Gold medal" for high scorer in university.
He is one of the finest otologist world renowned indeed.
At this stage he is well upgraded and interested in understanding present day technology, recent advancement and robotics rage with its applications in Medical field today.
His belief and philosophy in life has been - there are plenty good men around and we do find them and if intention is strong and pure, money matters get sorted automatically.
He joyfully quotes Nothing we carry with us after life hence giving back what all we receive amounts to our account of karmas.
With such headstrong thought and karma guided working intent sir has been ever smiling in facing or we may say conquering life challenges till date.
A true philanthrophist with such an inspiring journey of sir is sure to boost work, sincerity and enthusiam in all of us.
Team Sushrut thanks sir for his blessings for this endveour which is well aligned with his ideas of knowledge dissemination and constant upliftment.
