{"id":904,"date":"2017-12-22T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:57:00","slug":"100-most-powerful-indians-in-the-gulf-business-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/100-most-powerful-indians-in-the-gulf-business-com\/","title":{"rendered":"100 most powerful Indians in the Gulf &#8211; Business.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/padmakumar-gulf-news-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-905 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/padmakumar-gulf-news.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/padmakumar-gulf-news-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/padmakumar-gulf-news-768x576.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-justify\">A specialist in obesity and diabetes, Dr. R. Padmakumar is presently exerting his considerable intelligence in a bid to help alleviate lifestyle diseases in the Gulf. Dr. Padmakumar is the first surgeon to win approval from the UAE&#8217;s Ministry of Health to conduct keyhole excess fat removal surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-justify\">Given the prevalence of diabetes in the Gulf &#8211; with some estimates claiming that the disease accounts for some 40 percent of the UAE&#8217;s healthcare budget alone &#8211; Dr. Padmakumar&#8217;s techniques could make the difference for hundreds of patients in the region. He received his training in laparoscopy and cancer surgery from prestigious institutions including the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiims.edu\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All India Institute of Medical Sciences&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rmlh.nic.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital<\/a>, New Delhi,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tmc.gov.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TATA Memorial Hospital<\/a>, Mumbai and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apollohospitals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo Cancer Hospital&nbsp;<\/a>, Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A specialist in obesity and diabetes, Dr. R. Padmakumar is presently exerting his considerable intelligence in a bid to help alleviate lifestyle diseases in the Gulf. Dr. Padmakumar is the first surgeon to win approval from the UAE&#8217;s Ministry of Health to conduct keyhole excess fat removal surgery. Given the prevalence of diabetes in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-awards","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrpadmakumar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}