Bengaluru: Padma Shri awardee Sulagitti Narasamma, passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday. She was 98. She was suffering from age related ailments and was undergoing treatment at BGS Hospital since 20 days.
Married at the age of 12 to Anjinappa, she has 12 children and 36 grandchildren. Narasamma is best known for extending free of cost midwife services to pregnant women at a time when medical help was hard to come by in rural areas. Though she was an illiterate, she is said to have learnt this skill from her grandmother, Marigemma, at a very young age.
