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| birth_date = 23 May 1920 <ref name=":1">{{Cite news|others=Today in Focus|date=2020-05-31|title=Moni Kumar Chetri after Bidhanchandra Roy in West Bengal's Health Services |language=bn-IN|work=ABP Ananda |url=https://bengali.abplive.com/news/aaj-focus-e/doctor-mani-kumar-chetri-turns-100-students-wished-him-on-this-occasion-700018}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Teesta River|Teesta Valley]], [[Darjeeling]], [[West Bengal]], India
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| occupation = Cardiologist
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| parents = P. L. Singh Chettri<br>H. M. Chettri.
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Mani Kumar Chetri''' is an Indian cardiologist, a former director of West Bengal State Health Services and a former director of the [[IPGMER and SSKM Hospital]], Kolkata.<ref name="Personality of the Month">{{cite web | url=http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/Personality-Profile/profile-of-the-month-manikumar-chhetri.html | title=Personality of the Month | publisher=Darjeeling Times | date=27 December 2007 | access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref> He is an elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]]<ref name="List of Fellows - NAMS">{{cite web | url=http://www.nams-india.in/downloads/fellowsmembers/ZZ.pdf | title=List of Fellows - NAMS | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=19 March 2016}}</ref> and a recipient of the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] from the Government of India in 1974.<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://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:AMRI Hospital - Advanced Medical Research Institute - Dhakuria - Kolkata 2014-02-12 2008.JPG|thumb|235px|AMRI Hospital, Dhakuria]]
Mani Kumar Chetri was born on 23 May 1920 in Teesta Valley T.E.,<ref name="GJM cries foul in arrest of Padmashree Doctor in AMRI case">{{cite web | url=http://isikkim.com/2012-01-gjm-cries-foul-in-arrest-of-padmashree-doctor-in-amri-case-31-01/ | title=GJM cries foul in arrest of Padmashree Doctor in AMRI case | publisher=I Sikkim | date=31 January 2012 | access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> one of the oldest tea gardens situated on the banks of [[Teesta River]] in [[Darjeeling]] in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]],<ref name="Dazzling Darjeeling">{{cite web | url=http://darjeelingtimes.com/dazzling-darjeeling-visit-teesta-valley/ | title=Dazzling Darjeeling | publisher=Darjeeling Times | date=2 April 2015 | access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> in a [[Indian Gorkha|gorkha]] family<ref name="Notable Indian Gorkhas">{{cite web | url=http://worldgorkhafoundationtrust.com/trust/About-Gorkha | title=Notable Indian Gorkhas | publisher=World Gorkha Foundation Trust | date=2015 | access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> to P. L. Singh Chettri and H. M. Chettri.<ref name="Personality of the Month" /> He did his early schooling at the Darjeeling Municipal Primary School and Turnbull High School and completed his matriculation from the Government High School, Darjeeling in 1936.<ref name="Personality of the Month" /> After passing his intermediate examination from [[St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College]], Kolkata, he secured a graduate degree in medicine (MBBS) from the [[Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata|Government Medical College, Calcutta]] and the degree of FRCP from London on government scholarship in 1956.<ref name="Personality of the Month" />

Chetri joined the [[IPGMER and SSKM Hospital]] in 1960 as the director and a professor of the department of cardiology.<ref name="Personality of the Month" /> In 1976, he was appointed as the Director of West Bengal Health Services in 1976<ref name="GJM cries foul in arrest of Padmashree Doctor in AMRI case" /> and served as the personal doctor of the then chief minister, [[Jyoti Basu]].<ref name="All India Gorkha League (AIGL) condemns the arrest of Dr. Mani Kumar Chettri">{{cite web | url=http://www.mungpoo.org/2012/01/all-india-gorkha-league-aigl-condemns.html | title=All India Gorkha League (AIGL) condemns the arrest of Dr. Mani Kumar Chettri | publisher=Mungpoo News | date=29 January 2012 | access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> In 1997, when the [[AMRI Hospitals|Advanced Medical Research Institute]] was started in Dhakuria,<ref name="GJM cries foul in arrest of Padmashree Doctor in AMRI case" /> Chetri was made the managing director, but he continued his association with PGIMER as an advisor.<ref name="Personality of the Month" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the civilian honor of [[Padma Shri]] in 1974.<ref name="Padma Shri" />

==See also==
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* [[AMRI Hospitals]]
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==References==
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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Medicine}}

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[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:Fellows of the National Academy of Medical Sciences]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian medical doctors]]
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