Vasant parikh

Vasant Vrajlal Parikh (14 February 1929 ― 16 March 2007) was an Indian politician, social worker, writer, eye surgeon and Ayurveda doctor from Gujarat.

Biography Parikh was born on 14 February 1929 at Vadnagar (now in Mehsana district, Gujarat, India) in a Hindu Vaishnav family. He studied Ayurveda at Jamnagar Ayurveda College and served as a doctor in government hospital for brief period. He studied in Bombay and became an eye surgeon. With Dr. Dwarkadas Joshi, he founded the Nagrik Mandal Hospital in Vadnagar where he served for rest of his life. He was chief supporter of Dharoi dam and was instrumental in campaign for it. He did 9-day walk from Vadnagar to Gandhinagar for the dam which was finally approved in 1971. He was defeated in 1972 and 1995 legislative assembly elections. He had written 42 books. He died on 16 March 2007 in Vadnagar.

Vasant-Prabha Hospital in Vadnagar is named after him.