Padma Shri award honor ‘Sulagitti Narasamma’ died

Sulagitti Narasamma was an Indian midwife from Krishnapura, Pavagada taluk, Tumkur district, Karnataka. She received multiple honours for performing more than 15,000 traditional deliveries free of charge over a 70-year period of service in deprived regions of Karnataka with no medical facilities.

Her work was honored with the National Citizen’s award of India in 2012 and the country’s fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2018.

She died at BGS Gleneagles Global Hospitals in Kengeri, Bengaluru, Karnataka on 25 December 2018 at the age of 98 of chronic lung disease.