Morung Express News
Dimapur | March 20
One of the senior most Naga surgeons, Dr. Temsu Changkiri, better known as Dr Temsu Jamir, passed away on Tuesday morning at Eden Medical Centre, Dimapur. He was 85. He leaves behind his wife, a son and two daughters. Noted as an eminent doctor among the medical fraternity, Dr. Temsu was also known as a philanthropist by many for giving free services and medications to the poor.
He started his medical career in the early 1960s joining the Jorhat Mission Hospital as a Medical Officer in 1964 and would then go on to do his Post Graduate in medicine from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) before coming out as a Master of Surgery (MS) in 1970.
Dr. Temsu then joined the Government of Nagaland but subsequently left to set up one of the first nursing homes in the state in 1978 – Fellowship Nursing Home at Duncan Basti, Dimapur.
The nursing home also gave rise to the name of the locality around it and Dr. Temsu would play a pivotal role in the growth of Fellowship Colony as one of its founding fathers and First Chairman of the colony council.
His mortal remain was interred today after a funeral service at his residence in Fellowship colony. Thousands of people from different walks of life came out to pay their tributes to the departed doctor.
