Bill Gates lauds Delhi doctor, calls him a hero
In his blog GatesNotes, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called Delhi's Dr Mathew Varghese one of the five people who he thought were heroes. Dr Varghese runs India's only polio ward at St Stephen's Hospital and provides reconstructive surgery to give polio survivors greater mobility. Although polio was eliminated in 2011, thousands suffer from immobility caused by the disease. 