K. K. Aggarwal (cardiologist)

Krishan Kumar Aggarwal (5 September 1958 – 17 May 2021) was an Indian physician and cardiologist who was President of the Confederation of Medical Association of Asia and Oceania (CMAAO), President of the Heart Care Foundation of India and the Past National President of Indian Medical Association. In 2010, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of medicine.
Biography.
Aggarwal did his MBBS from Nagpur University in 1979 and obtained an MD from the same university in 1983. He was a senior consultant at Moolchand Medcity, New Delhi, India, until 2017.
He had published many books on health including Alloveda in which he combined ancient Vedic medicine with modern allopathy, 6 textbook chapters on echocardiography and thousands of articles in national and international press. He had claimed that the Indian epic Mahabharata offers answers to many psychiatric issues and Lord Krishna was India's first counsellor. He was one of the pioneers of streptokinase therapy for heart attacks in India and introduced the technique of Colour Doppler Echocardiography in India. Aggarwal had been honoured with the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category, in 2005. He was also a recipient of Vishwa Hindi Samman, National Science Communication Award, FICCI Health Care Personality of the Year Award, Dr D S Mungekar National IMA Award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award. In 2010, he received the Padma Shri. 
He had been the national president of the Indian Medical Association and chief editor of IJCP Group.
Aggarwal was criticised for justifying Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to light lamps during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic for allegedly invoking pseudoscientific beliefs. In January 2021, a video of Aggarwal's wife scolding him because he didn't take her with him for the COVID-19 vaccination went viral.
Death.
In May 2021, Aggarwal's family announced that he was undergoing treatment for a COVID-19 infection in Delhi. Aggarwal died on 17 May 2021 in New Delhi while receiving treatment for COVID-19.