Martha Bhaskar Rao, an Ayurvedic surgeon of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam’s-run Sri Venkateswara Ayurvedic College, Tirupati, has received ‘Vaidya Ratna’ award at a function organised recently by Suman Art Theatres in Hyderabad.
He received the award from retired IPS officer C.N. Gopinath Reddy and former Chief Whip Rudraraju Padma Raju. Dr. Rao has performed over 10,000 surgeries pertaining to piles and fistula using the time-tested ‘Ksharasutra’ method and his recent book ‘Recent advances in Ksharasutra in high anal fistula’ has also been made a referral text book.