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in 1912, where he earned his MBBS degree in 1917. He then joined the
Government Hospital for Women and Children as an Assistant Surgeon. He was later commissioned to the
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diseases and, in 1926, passed the FRCS examination from
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On 14 November 1964, P. V. Cherian was sworn in as the
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