Campaign to honour test-tube baby pioneer

KOLKATA: A campaign was launched on Saturday to ensure India’s test-tube baby pioneer Subhash Mukhopadhyay receives befitting posthumous honours. State heritage commission chairman Suvaprasanna said a street may be named after Mukhopadhay and his bust installed at a prominent space. Suvaprasanna will urge Mamata Banerjee to christen a medical college after him.
“We have been able to send our message to the government,” said Gautam Khastgir, chairperson, Birth Inspire Foundation, which organized the event. Prabhat Agarwal, father of test-tube baby Durga who was born on October 3, 1978, as a result of Mukhopadhyay’s treatment, gynaecologist Pronob Dasgupta and West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Ananya Chakraborty attended the event on Saturday.