Narendra Kumar Pandey

Narendra Kumar Pandey

Biography

Narendra Kumar Pandey was born on 1 January 1951, in the remote village of Bishnupura, in Saran district of Bihar, India. He was the eldest of three children born to Jagat Pandey, a village head master, and Vidya Pandey. For his early education, he studied in the local village school where one of his uncles was a teacher. However, he had to complete his school education at different locations when his father joined the central government service and was posted at various locations across northern India. Pandey chose a medical career, inspired by one of his uncles who was a medical practitioner, and joined Patna Medical College where he acquired his medical degree of MBBS, in 1974, and completed his residency there.

Asian Institute of Medical Sciences Narendra Kumar Pandey founded the Asian Institute of Medical Sciences on 1 February 2010. The institute is a super specialty tertiary care medical institution, in Faridabad. and is reported to have facilities to accommodate 350 in-patients at a time. The institute is claimed to provide the patients with preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, palliative and support services. Pandey is the chairman and managing director of the institution and his sons and daughters and their families assist Pandey in running the institution. The hospital is accredited by National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) and National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL). he also serves as the director of Lakhani India Ltd, Blue Sapphire Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Escorts Employees Welfare Ltd., Turquoise House of Design and Trading Pvt. Ltd.

Awards and recognitions The Government of India, in 2014, honoured Narendra Kumar Pandey, by awarding him the civilian honour of Padma Shri. on 14-15 February 2012, in Gurgaon.

The Delhi Doctors' Association, in 1997, conferred the Distinguished Service Award on Pandey. He also received Betadine Achievement Award from the Association of Surgeons of India in 2010. The Teerthanker Mahaveer University awarded him the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) in 2013.