Photo: ANNE PAAR
Dr Askar Kukkady is a Waikato-based paediatric surgeon who has performed surgeries on children across the Pacific who could otherwise not access care.
He was just 17 when he witnessed surgery on a newborn, which ignited a passion for paediatrics.
He trained India where he was born, and moved to New Zealand in the late 90s.
In 2004, he led a 22-hour operation to separate conjoined twins from Rotorua… girls only months old… the first operation of its kind in Australasia.
