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In March 1947, an Armed Forces Medical Services and Research Integration Committee was formed by the Government of India. The committee, headed by Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, subsequently Chief Minister of West Bengal until 1962, was tasked with examining the integration of medical services and research of the three branches of the Armed Forces.
The Government also laid down the role and character of responsibilities of DGAFMS. The DGAFMS was made directly responsible to the Ministry of Defence for overall medical policy matters in so far as they relate to the Armed Forces. The Government further laid down that the heads of medical services of Army, Navy and Air Force will be ...
Under the DGAFMS are individual medical service heads. The DFAFMS thus coordinates with the heads of the medical services of the Army, Navy and Air Force. The Army Dental Corps (ADC) and the Military Nursing Service have their own department heads (Director General Dental Services and Additional Director General Military Nursing Service ...
First woman to serve as DGAFMS and the highest-ranking woman officer in the history of the Indian Armed Forces. [91] 7 Lieutenant General Sadhna S Nair VSM Indian Army: 23 October 2023 Current Director General Medical Services (Army). Earlier Director General Hospital Services (Armed Forces) in the rank of Air Marshal. [92] 8
AFMC main building. The Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) is a leading medical training institute in Pune, India, in the state of Maharashtra.The college is managed by the Indian Armed Forces.
Thapar was born to a prominent Punjabi family in Lahore, where he received his early education, also studying at Government College Lahore. [2] [3] Entering the University of Edinburgh in 1911 for his medical studies, he graduated M.B.Ch.B. (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) in 1916.
Lieutenant General Rajshree Ramasethu is a former general officer of the Indian Army.She is the fifth woman in the Indian Armed Forces and third in the Indian Army to be promoted to a Three-star rank.
The first all-female team of skydivers of the Indian Air Force made its official debut during the annual Air Force Day parade. [118] Brigadier Simone Wilkie became the first woman to be in command of Australian soldiers at war. Specifically, Brigadier Wilkie, 47, was National Commander, Afghanistan, and was in charge of all 1500 Australian ...