P. K . Sethi
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Pramod Karan Sethi (born 1927 in Varanasi, India) is a noted Indian orthopaedic surgeon and Padma Shri awardee. He helped develop the so called "Jaipur Foot", an artificial limb, and was given the Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1981.
The Jaipur foot is made of rubber and wood and is probably the lowest cost prosthetic limb available - in the world. The International Red Cross Committee has used it extensively in Afghanistan and other places to help amputees.
Ram Chandra Sharma, an illiterate craftsman, is the co-inventor of the foot. It is said the original idea of the Jaipur foot came from him in a serependitious fashion one day while he was riding a bycyle and had a flat tyre. The Jaipur foot was invented in 1969. P. K. Sethi got the Ramon Magsaysay award in 1981 for the invention.
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