Sitaram Jaipuria
Foundation
Medical & Healthcare
Excellence Awards 2023

Celebrating Life Savers

The Awards

SJF Medical Awards 2023

About Awards

Celebrating Life Savers

The medical profession has always been called “The Nobel Profession”. And rightfully so. Through times of pain and illness we turn with faith to these practitioners of medicine to comfort and cure us. And they work day in and day out to help us. For them, work never ends.

The demands on these doctors are physical, mental and emotional.

Never were they more put to test as they were, in the last few years when we collectively battled the pandemic. How many doctors put their own lives at risk to try and save the many who were dealing with a mysterious illness?

Ashok Jaipuria, Chairman of Cosmo First Limited recognizing the invaluable services of the medical fraternity has now set up an annual award program to honour and infer recognition for the services of these brave hearts. Sitaram Jaipuria Medical & Healthcare Excellence Awards have been created with a deep sense of respect. It aims to shine a light on the many doctors who are our backbone and safe harbour. The awards are the first of its kind to be set up in India.

The awards will equally encompass practitioners in rural and urban areas. Many a time doctors on far flung places are unsung heroes. They too must be seen.

The awards will be fully funded by Ashok Jaipuria & family and their associate enterprises for the first five years. From there, the awards will evolve and expand.

Sitaram Jaipuria Medical and Healthcare Excellence Awards are an effort that is inclusive and objective. And hopefully will play an important role in spotlighting talent and innovators.

"We grow by giving and sharing"
- LATE SHRI SITARAM JAIPURIA

LATE SHRI SITARAM JAIPURIA

Sitaram Ji was an industrialist, a distinguished parliamentarian, a philanthropist and an outstanding humanitarian who led an exemplary and inspirational life. He was the Chairman of Swadeshi group of companies including Swadeshi Cotton Mills, Swadeshi Polytex etc. He represented Uttar Pradesh as an independent Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 1962 to 1974. He set up a college in Kolkata, schools in Kanpur and Ghaziabad, an eye hospital in Navalgarh and Dharmshalas in Haridwar, Varanasi, Vrindavan, Chitrakoot etc. providing hygienic, comfortable and affordable stay to the pilgrims. He was also the Grand Master of Freemason Grand Lodge of India.

Award Categories

Excellence in Medicine & Healthcare

This award aims at honouring an individual who has made and continues to make an outstanding contribution to improving clinical care and fostering innovations in India. Prize: 50 Lakhs

Emerging Young Leader in Medicine and Healthcare Award

This award aims at honouring a young individual (< 45 years) who has made and continues to make an outstanding contribution to medicine and research in India. Prize: 10 Lakhs

Exemplary Leadership in Rural Medicine and Healthcare

This award aims at honouring an individual who has made and continues to make an outstanding contribution to furthering wellness and healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability in rural/hard-to-reach/tribal areas in India. Prize: 10 Lakhs

Smt. Gayatri Jaipuria Women's Medicine and Healthcare Excellence Award

This award aims at honouring extraordinary women who have made seminal contributions to the field of medicine and is a source of inspiration to doctors across the country. Prize: 10 Lakhs

Shaping Medical Excellence