Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria

Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria was an Indian physician, social worker, and the founder of Bel-Air Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium at Panchgani, a hill station in Maharashtra.^[1] Born on 13 May 1882 in Mumbai to Bomanji Jamshedji Billimoria as the youngest of his four children,^[2] Billimoria took up medicine as his profession and, in 1912, established a sanatorium for treating tuberculosis at Dalkeith in Panchgani.^[3] The facility has grown over the years to become a 250-bedded healthcare centre and is managed by Indian Red Cross Society.^[2] He was married to Gulestan Rustom Billimoria,^[4] a known social worker and a Padma Bhushan recipient.^[5] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1961, for his contributions to medicine.^[6]