Randeep Guleria, 61 Director, AIIMS

The country’s top pulmonologist has played troubleshooter for the Government. In early May, the director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) boarded a special Air Force flight to Ahmedabad, as Covid-19 cases crossed 7,000 in Gujarat. He met doctors to provide expert guidance on management of the disease. A month later, as Delhi witnessed a surge with a total of nearly 35,000 cases, he was on a high-level panel constituted by Lt Governor Anil Baijal to recommend ways to contain the spread. The capital, which recorded the highest number of cases in a city, has one of the lowest growth rates now. By the middle of July, Guleria said Delhi seemed to have hit the peak. Taking time off his busy schedule as part of the policymaking team for the pandemic, he answers queries ranging from plasma therapy to the indigenous Covaxin vaccine, highlighting the brighter side of the fight against the coronavirus. He joined AIIMS as an Assistant Professor in 1992 and was appointed its Director in 2017. He worked as a personal physician to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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