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Born in India, Dr. Casberg served the US Forces during the Second World War. He was appointed the Principal @CMCLudhiana on 1 October 1959 when he was with the University of Texas as the Vice President of medical affairs.

Dr. Melvin A Casberg, former Director & Principal of Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, holding pint of whole blood when he was serving as Vice Chairman of the Armed Forces Medical Policy Council, USA. Born in India, Dr. Casberg served the US Forces during the…

Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru in February 1954 where he received injury in his finger & thus became the 1st patient to be treated here by Dr R. Kesavan Nair.

Dr. Madan Mohan Lal Atal: An Indian doctor and freedom fighter who was an early antifascist and rejected the Non-Intervention policy in the Spanish Civil War, according to the Spanish Civil War virtual museum. He also led a goodwill medical mission to China in the late 1930s.

Dr. Mehanlal Atal, of U.P & a pass out from Edinburgh, led the medical missions from the Indian Nationalists to Spain & China in the 1930s. He was a freedom fighter, anti-fascist & a poet who lived in China till his death in 1957.

Sir Kailas Chandra Bose became the 1st Indian doctor to be knighted in 1916. A graduate of Calcutta Medical College in 1874, he was made a commissioner of Calcutta Municipality, awarded Kaiser-i-Hind, created CIE & OBE in recognition of his services to the medicine.

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Dr. M. A. Ansari was the 1st Indian Medical Doctor to have a postage stamp in his honour. The stamp was released in 1980 for this graduate of Madras Medical College & Edinburgh University who also led the Freedom Struggle

Colonel Dr. M. N. Chaudhuri, father of the famous actress Devika Rani, was the 1st Indian to become Surgeon General of Madras Presidency. He also led several Medical Colleges, hospitals & departments.

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Dr. Dossibai J. R. Dadabhoy was the first woman MRCS & MRCP (1910. By qualifying M.D in London (1912) she became the 1st Indian woman with the distinction. The 1st woman to join the Indian Medical Association , she was a successful gynaecologist. @dr_eeks @DrPriya_anshu

Dr. Pattabhi Seetharamiah (Sitaramayya) was the 1st doctor from Andhra Pradesh. Passed in 1906 from Madras Medical College, he went on to become one of the biggest leaders of the Freedom Movement along with Nehru & Patel.

Padma Vibhushan Dr. B. K. Goyal, in a photograph published in The Illustrated Weekly of India in September 1973. Dr. B.K. Goyal, Honorary Cardiologist at Bombay Hospital from 1966 to 2018, received Padma Shri (1982), Padma Bhushan (1990), and Padma Vibhushan (2005).

Miss India 1966 was a student of Grant Medical College but she chose to continue to be a Medic than a Model ⚕️🩺🏥👇🏻👌🙌

Doctors on Strike In 1973, Resident Doctors of Hospitals and Medical Colleges went on strike demanding an increase in salary. Government terminated their services and forced them to vacate the quarters. (Source: Illustrated Weekly of India)

Dr. Reita Faria, the 1st Indian to win the Miss World title in 1966, was a student of MBBS at Grant Medical College, Bombay at that time. After winning the beauty contest she was offered films & modelling assignments but she declined those to continue her studies. Dr. Faria…

My father was in CMC in dept of Pathology with Dr Dorothy Vaux before he took over as Head, I think

@kiranshaw says, "Who are the people who made India a global brand of excellence, and not of poverty? Who are the people who said, "We don't have to go around saying that we are poor, that we have no resources"? Who are the people who built their businesses under unimaginably…

President Giani Zail Singh inaugurated Apollo Hospital founded by Dr. Prathap C Reddy, an eminent cardiologist, in Chennai (then Madras) on 18 September 1983 making it the first Corporate Hospital in India. According to Panay Gupte, "When I asked Dr Reddy about this, he said,…