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Jitendra Nath Gohain is an Indian surgeon. He was the president of the Association of Rural Surgeons of India, and the Indian Medical Association (IMA) branch of Nagaon. In 1981, he established the P & K Memorial Nursing Home at Nagaon. In 2006, he was awarded the Chikitsa Ratna Award. He is a native of Nagaon, Assam, India.
He completed his MBBS from Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, and went to London for his residency. There he worked with British medical doctors like orthopaedist Alan Graham Apley. In 1971, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and returned to Assam to serve the society. He is still practising medicine in the Nagaon district.
In 2007, his biography Jeebonjoyi Dr. Jitendra Nath Gohain: Tyaag aaru Adarkha, was written by journalist Khekhab Gogoi, which was not released due to a print fault.