Ratan Chandra Kar is anIndian physician and health official who worked inAndaman and Nicobar. He is known for helping theJarawas (Andaman Islands) from disease outbreaks, such as measles in 1998.[1]
Ratan Chandra Kar was born inGhatal.[2] He is a general physician and is the author of the bookThe Jarawas of the Andamans.[3][4] He is an alumnus ofNil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital.[2]
He worked with the remote indigenous people, learning their language and gaining their trust, from 1998 to 2003.[2] As the local medical official, he worked out of a thatched hut which served as the primary health centre.[4] He then went to work inPort Blair in 2003, but continued his visits to the Jarawas. In 2006, he became the deputy director (tribal and welfare) of the Andaman and Nicobar administration. From 2012 to 2013, he was posted atNeil Island. Following his 2014 retirement, he continued to work locally, and then returned with his family to Bangalore.[2]
In 2023, he was awarded thePadma Shri.[5][citation needed][6] Locally, he was known as Jarawa Doctor.
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