Darshan Singh Vohra

Darshan Singh Vohra was an Indian Army officer, an engineer, one of the pioneers of prosthetics in Asia and the founder of the first prosthetic centre in Asia, Artificial Limb Centre, Pune and Nevedac Prosthetic Centre, another prosthetic facility in Chandigarh. After obtaining advanced training in prosthetics from Germany and England, he joined the Indian Army and was holding the rank of a colonel at the time of his superannuation. He founded the first prosthetic centre in Asia, Artificial Limb Centre, immediately after World War II, in 1944, at Pune, for the rehabilitation of soldiers who lost their limbs in war and the facility has grown to become a 190 bedded healthcare centre, working attached to the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.