This 92-Year-Old Doctor Has Delivered 200,000 Babies and Isn't Stopping

At 92 years old, Dr. Suri Srimathi begins her day with yoga at home, reviews patient updates with her assistants by 8:30 a.m., maps out the day’s surgeries, and sees patients again at her home clinic in the evening. The routine has not changed much in six decades. Neither, by her own account, has the feeling she gets when a baby arrives safely into the world.

Dr. Srimathi is a gynecologist practicing in Hyderabad, India. She completed her MD in gynecology in 1965. Over six decades of practice, she built a career spanning Osmania Medical College, Gandhi Medical College, the Government Maternity Hospital, Niloufer Hospital, and several private practices. The number of babies she has delivered now stands at approximately 200,000 — and is still rising.

A Career That Spans Generations

The scope of that number is difficult to fully absorb. It means that thousands of people living their ordinary lives in Hyderabad today were brought into the world by the same pair of hands. Dr. Srimathi’s patients have returned to her across generations — daughters of women she delivered, granddaughters of women she treated in the early years of her career.

She retired from her hospital positions after 35 years of institutional practice, then opened a home clinic in 1999 because, as she explained in a profile by The Better India, she felt responsible for the pregnant women in her locality. Retirement, in the conventional sense, was never quite the right word for what she did. She simply changed the setting.

What Has Changed — and What Has Not

Dr. Srimathi has watched women’s healthcare in India transform across her career. Child marriages, large families, maternal deaths, and stillbirths have all declined significantly during the decades she has been practicing. The total fertility rate in Telangana, the state where she works, now stands at 1.8 — well below the national average — a shift she has observed firsthand across the generations of patients she has treated.

She recalls, with a kind of quiet amazement, performing the 13th delivery of the same couple in her early years as a gynecologist. That would be nearly unthinkable today. Modern awareness, later marriages, and women’s growing professional and personal agency have reshaped the landscape of reproductive health in her region in ways she finds deeply encouraging.

Why She Has Not Stopped

When asked about the joy she still finds in her work, Dr. Srimathi’s answer is consistent: it lives in the babies she has helped bring into the world, the mothers who returned home safely, and the knowledge that the care she offers continues in the hands of those she has trained and influenced. According to DailyGood’s profile published in March 2026, she still feels that joy with the same clarity she did when she began.

There is nothing performative about her continued practice. She is not making a point. She is simply doing the work she has always done, in a home clinic that stays open because the need is still there and she is still capable of meeting it.

A Life That Speaks for Itself

Dr. Srimathi’s father, a pioneer of yoga in Andhra Pradesh, cycled at 92 and attributed his health to the practice. She has continued that tradition, beginning each morning on the mat before the day’s patients begin arriving. It is a small detail, but it feels like part of the same story — a family that understood longevity not as something that happens to you, but as something you tend.

Two hundred thousand babies. Six decades of practice. A home clinic that opens every evening. For the women of Hyderabad who have known her name across three generations, Dr. Suri Srimathi is simply the doctor who shows up. That, it turns out, is everything.

References: Dr. Suri Srimathi, 92, on Six Decades of Medical Practice in India | Dr. Suri Srimathi: The 92-Year-Old Gynaecologist Who Has Delivered Over 2 Lakh Babies