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{{Infobox person
| name = Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi
| birth_date = 1903
| birth_place = [[Pudukkottai district|Pudukkottai]], British India
| death_date = 1994
| occupation = Physician
| known for = Social service
| parents = P. S. Krishnaswamy Iyer<br>Dharmambal
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Padma Bhushan]]
| relatives = [[Krishnasami Venkataraman]] (brother)<br/>[[K. Swaminathan]] (brother)<br/>[[Madhav Sharma]] (nephew)
}}
'''Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi''' (1903–1994) was an Indian medical doctor, [[Gandhian]], social worker and the founder of [[Voluntary Health Services]] (VHS),<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/2005/03/28/stories/2005032803131200.htm | title= Visionary doctor's legacy | date=28 March 2005 | first=N.S. | last=Murali | newspaper=[[The Hindu]] | access-date=9 September 2018}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> a medical facility in Chennai reported to be serving the lower and middle-class people of the society.<ref name="Rotary News">{{cite web|url=http://rotarynewsonline.org/articles/ReachingLifeSaversJuly2014 |title=Rotary News |publisher=Rotary International |date=1 August 2014 |access-date=22 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524220959/http://rotarynewsonline.org/articles/ReachingLifeSaversJuly2014 |archive-date=24 May 2015 }}</ref><ref name="VHS">{{cite web | url=http://vhschennai.org/?page_id=73 | title=VHS | publisher=VHS | date=2015 | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> He was honoured by the [[Government of India]] in 1971 with [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> Five years later, the government followed it up by awarding him the third highest civilian award of [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1976.<ref name="Padma Bhushan">{{cite web | url=http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php?start=660 | title=Padma Bhushan | publisher=Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=22 May 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034740/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php?start=660 | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Biography==
Srinivas Sanjivi was born in 1903 at [[Pudukkottai]] in the south Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]] to Dharmambal and P. S. Krishnaswamy Iyer,<ref name="Boloji">{{cite web | url=http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=941 | title=Boloji | publisher=Boloji | date=2015 | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> the self-appointed guardian of [[Muthulakshmi Reddi]], a renowned Indian physician and the first woman legislator in India,<ref name="The Pioneers: Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy">{{cite journal | url=http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?type=static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl2511/stories/20080606251101400.htm | title=The Pioneers: Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy | author=S. Viswanathan | journal=Frontline |date=May 2008 | volume=25 | issue=11}}</ref> during her college days.<ref name="My musings">{{cite web | url=http://rajappa-musings.blogspot.ae/2007/11/dr-muthulakshmi-reddy.html | title=My musings | publisher=My musings | date=2015 | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> He was the youngest of their four children, the eldest a daughter, Veda and his elder brothers, [[K. Swaminathan|Krishnaswamy Swaminathan]], noted journalist and the chief editor<ref name="Indian Folklore">{{cite web | url=http://indianfolklore.org/journals/index.php/Ish/article/viewFile/279/297 | title=Indian Folklore | publisher=Indian Folklore | date=2015 | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> of The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi<ref name="The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi">{{cite web | url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Collected_Works_of_Mahatma_Gandhi | title=The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi | publisher=English Wikisource | date=2015 | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> and [[K. Venkataraman|Krishnaswamy Venkataraman]], former director of the [[National Chemical Laboratory]];<ref name="NCL">{{cite web | url=http://www.ncl-india.org/files/AboutNCL/Organization/PreviousDirectors.aspx?menuid=ql8&childmenustripid=divSubQL8 | title=NCL | publisher=National Chemical Laboratory | date=2015 | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> both would go on to win [[Padma Bhushan]] awards.<ref name="Boloji" /><ref name="My musings" /> Actor [[Madhav Sharma]] is his nephew.

He did his schooling at [[P. S. Senior Secondary School]] and graduated from the [[Presidency College, Madras]] after which he joined [[Madras Medical College]] from where he graduated in medicine (MBBS) in 1927.<ref name="The Hindu" /> He secured a master's degree (MD) in general medicine from the same institution in 1932 and joined government service.<ref name="The Hindu" />

Sanjivi served many places in the erstwhile Madras state like [[Madanapalle]], [[Madurai]] and Madras city and held several senior positions in the state government service including the post of the Director of Tuberculosis in the Madras Medical Service, Professor of medicine at [[Stanley Medical College]] and [[Madras Medical College]] and also served as the first physician at the [[Government General Hospital, Chennai]].<ref name="The Hindu" /> When his legitimate claim to the post of the Director of Medical Services was ignored, he voluntarily retired from government service<ref name="The Hindu" /><ref name="Boloji" /> and founded the [[Voluntary Health Services]] (VHS) in 1958 as a non profit making [[non governmental organization]] to extend cost effective medical services to the poor and middle class sections of the society.<ref name="TOI">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/A-surgeon-who-touched-many-lives/articleshow/4493065.cms | title=TOI | publisher=Times of India | date=7 May 2009 | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> Declining the offer of the post of a professor of medicine at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences]], New Delhi and choosing not to resort to private practice, he engaged himself fully into the work associated with VHS.<ref name="The Hindu" />

Gathering assistance from his students and some of the notable personalities of like
[[Kasturi Srinivasan]], [[T. R. Venkatarama Sastri]], [[M. Bhaktavatsalam]], and [[M. A. Chidambaram]], Sanjivi developed Voluntary Health Services with the work on the hospital building starting in 1961, the foundation stone laid by then prime minister of India, [[Jawaharlal Nehru]].<ref name="The Hindu" /> In two years time, the hospital was ready to admit the first inpatient. The institution has grown over the years to become a tertiary care 405 bedded referral hospital<ref name="Rotary News" /> and still maintains the practice of 70 percent of patients getting free medical service which includes food and medicines.<ref name="The Hindu" /><ref name="VHS" />

Sanjivi was reported to have contributed to the development of primary healthcare movement in India.<ref name="The Hindu" /> During his service with the Madras Medical Service, he established several ''mini health centres'', a model he continued with VHS. The institution manages 14 mini health centres in villages and small towns serving around 100,000 people and attends to immunization, maternity care, family welfare, sanitation and hygiene, school health examination, and maintenance of birth and death records.<ref name="The Hindu" /> It also runs a ''medical aid plan'', a form of insurance scheme for the lower and middle income families.<ref name="The Hindu" /> Towards the latter part of his life, Sanjivi got involved in the Aid prevention and control activities and one year after his death, his activities were recognized by the [[United States Agency for International Development]] (USAID) by selecting VHS in 1965 as a nodal agency for the implementation of the AIDS Prevention and Control (APAC) project in the state of Tamil Nadu.<ref name="VHS" />

The [[Government of India]] awarded Sanjivi the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1971.<ref name="Padma Shri" /> He was again selected for the national award in 1976, this time for the third highest honour of [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="Padma Bhushan" /> Voluntary Health Services honours him with an annual lecture, ''K. S. Sanjivi Endowment Lecture'', since 1995, [[Aruna Roy]], Vishwa Mohan Katoch<ref name="Katoch">{{cite web | url=http://vhschennai.org/?p=543 | title=Katoch | publisher=VHS | date=2015 | access-date=24 May 2015}}</ref> and Ravi Narayan<ref name="Ravi Narayan">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/peoples-movement-key-for-success-of-community-health-ravi-narayan/article996395.ece | title=Ravi Narayan | publisher=The Hindu | date=2010 | access-date=24 May 2015}}</ref> being some of the notable personalities who have delivered the lecture in the past.<ref name="The Hindu" /> The auditorium at VHS is also named after him.<ref name="Marundeshwara">{{cite web|url=http://www.marundeshwara.com/ProfKrishnamoorthySrinivas80thBirthdayOrationInvite.pdf |title=Marundeshwara |publisher=Marundeshwara |date=2015 |access-date=22 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524214936/http://www.marundeshwara.com/ProfKrishnamoorthySrinivas80thBirthdayOrationInvite.pdf |archive-date=24 May 2015 }}</ref>

Krishnaswamy Srinivas Sanjivi died in October 1994 at the age of 91.<ref name="TOI" />

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