Kolkata, Aug. 14 -- Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital today deeply mourned the passing away of Dr Vece Paes, 80, a distinguished member of India's Bronze medal-winning hockey team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, renowned sports medicine specialist and father of tennis legend Leander Paes.
Dr Paes started his medical practice at NRS Medical College and Woodlands Hospital in the 1960s.
Dr Paes was admitted to Woodlands Hospital late on August 12, under the care of Dr Soutik Panda, In-charge, Critical Care Medicine, with multiorgan dysfunction due to lower respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract infections. A regular patient at Woodlands Hospital, he had been under the Woodlands Home Care Service for the past ten months. A long-term patie...