Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Lt Gen Sadhna Saxena Nair became the first woman Director General of Medical Services of the Indian Army as she assumed the office on August 1. Lt Gen Sadhna Saxena is trained in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear warfare with the Israeli Defence Forces and in Military Medical Ethics with the Swiss Armed Forces in Spiez.
She was also the first woman officer to hold the post of DG Hospital Services (Armed Forces) on promotion to the rank of Air Marshal. She is also the first woman Principal Medical Officer of Western Air Command, and Training Command, Indian Air Force (IAF).
The Ministry of Defence said that the Lt Gen Nair graduated from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune with a distinguished academic record and was commissioned into the Army Medical Corps in December 1985. She holds a post-graduate degree in Family Medicine, Diplomas in Maternal and Child Health and Health Care Management and has undergone a two-year training programme in Medical Informatics at AIIMS, New Delhi.
