India’s 1st Female & Oldest Cardiologist, Dr S. Padmavati Passwd away recently.
She established the 1st cardiac clinic and catheterization laboratory at the Lady Hardinge Medical College in India.
She is popularly known as the “God Mother of Cardiology”.
She is the recipient of Padma Bhushan (1967) and Padma Vibhushan (1992).
She is the 1st female student to earn a medical degree at Rangoon Medical College, Rangoon.
She initiated India’s first Doctorate of Medicine in Cardiology.
She is the 1st and only person to be chief administrator of 3 major institutions at the same time- Maulana Azad Medical College, Lok Nayak Hospital and G.B. Pant hospital.