One night around 10.30 Dr Erach Udwadia returned home distraught from his Lower Parel clinic. A young, impoverished Parsi girl suffering from meningitis "was very ill and going to die,” recalled his eldest son Dr Farokh Udwadia addressing the 68-year-old Zoroastrian Dentists Organization (ZDO) at its annual Scientific Convention on February 20, 2022 at The Taj Mahal Palace hotel.
"There was no medicine for diseases like that.” There were one or two general drugs used for a multiple range of common ailments. But those could not combat such a grave illness. His father’s "empathy for patients made a deep impression on......