“Wear the white coat with dignity and pride, it is an honor and privilege to get to serve the public as a physician.”

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A Doctor is a person who helps to keep human health in healthy condition. Doctors help patients to get relief from their pain. Doctors play a very essential role in human life. We can say Doctors are the incarnation of the god. In India, we celebrate National Doctor’s Day on July of 1st to thank physicians and doctors for their dedicated services to patients. 

Today we are talking about DR. Chandrakala. V.   Is a well-known name in the medical circles in Tumkur, Karnataka.  Founder and Consultant  Radiologist at Raaghu Scanning Centre.

DR. Chandrakala. V, routing life is not as easy as normal people. DR. Chandrakala. V  doesn't have a fixed lifestyle like five days of working or only an 8 hours time slot and so on. DR. Chandrakala. V  have to be available any seconds of the emergency.

Dr. Chandrakala had her primary education in Bengaluru and later shifted to Tumkur. She did her MBBS from Bangalore Medical College. Later she did her PG Diploma in Radiology from Kuvempu University and also underwent special training programs in Foetal medicine.

Dr. Chandrakala.V,  is a doctor born to parents father Sri Veerachowdaiah retired Asst Executive Engineer  and mother  Yashodha  housewife. Did her primary and secondary education from Vasavi High school, Tumkur, and Pre-university  at Sarvodhaya college Tumkur.

In the year 1998, she started her own  Independent  Raaghu  Scanning  Centre at  Tumkurwith hardship and getting loan from KSFC  under  the scheme of female enterprisonership sponsured  by  State Govt and brought highly equipped  Radiology instruments imported from Japan and started to give  Radiological services  through advanced technology.

In Pandemic situations like COVID 19,  DR. Chandrakala. V  doctors  play a very vital role. Without their support, it's impossible to fight against it. In such scenarios, doctors play roles like soldiers who help us to fight against COVID 19 compromising their life too.

DR. Chandrakala. V has actively involved during  Corona pandemic  and  her  centre  catered  the radiological services  day  and  night.

She is doing health services mainly in the field of  UIltrasongraphy helping the high-risk pregnant mothers,  and also in identifying the congenital anomalies well in advance by doing various modern scientific procedures.

 

DR. Chandrakala. V aim is that no child should be born with any congenital abnormality. It can be done by early detection and early treatment, thereby helping parents and the community. Use my skills and improve my experience in the field of Foetal Medicine”, says Dr. Chandrakala.V

A super specialty diagnostic center with all the modern equipment including ultrasound, MRI, CT scanning, and many other facilities should be provided to the patients all under one roof is what I desire, she says. Apart from bringing state of the art technology, she also wants to provide employment opportunities to the people in the district.

She is doing health services mainly in the field of  UIltrasongraphy helping the high-risk pregnant mothers,  and also in identifying the congenital anomalies well in advance by doing various modern scientific procedures.

She has done scans of more than  3  lakhs patients in her 24 years of continuous work (from  1998  till today). Many people are getting benefitted from this center.

DR. Chandrakala. V is the founder of Raaghu  charitable trust which  is  joining  helping  hands  for  poor  pregnant  mothers,  Orphan  children and also to blind people there by doing social service. She has contributed  to old  age  homes  both by  doing  health check up  camps and financial assistance.

She got married to Dr Krishna Professor of pathology and formerly Deputy Director in  the  Health  Department GOK.

DR. Chandrakala. V is blessed with son  Dr. Raaghu who is at present a Final year  Postgraduate in MS General Surgery at JSS Medical College  Mysore.

Apart from being the founder and consultant radiologist at Raaghu Scanning Centre, Dr. Chandrakala has also worked as a senior resident in Sri Siddhartha medical college Tumkur, consultant radiologist to Adarsha nursing home and Kasturba hospital. She has also worked as a consultant radiologist in Sira, Madhugiri, Kunigal, Tiptur and Arsikere taluk places. Being an established radiologist she has done more than 2,50, 000 antenatal scans in her lifetime and detected more than 12000 anomalous foetuses.

Dr. Chandrakala.V has been Awarded has IIB BEST RADIOLOGIST AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AWARD -2022

Dr. Chandrakala.V Knowing the way she pursues her dreams and strives to bring them to reality, the day is not far off when the people of Tumkur will get an ultra-modern diagnostic center in their own midst.