GROUP : MADRAS B UNIT : 3 TN BN NCC NATIONAL DOCTORS DAY ❖ India celebrates National Doctors Day on July 1 every year to honor the birth and death anniversary of great physician ❖ He is the second chief minister of west Bengal Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy ❖ This day serves to show gratitude to all those doctors who have selflessly aided us in our time of need and tirelessly worked for the health of their patients . ✓ This year the National Doctor’s Day is very significant as doctors continue to fight the covid – 19 pandemic PUNITA ARORA ➢ SURGEON Vice Admiral [ LG] Punita Arora ➢ Arora PVSM,SM,VSM is a former Flag Officer Of the INDIAN NAVY and the INDIAN ARMY ➢ Arora was the first women promoted to a THREE-STAR RANK ➢ She held the ranks of Lieutenant General in Indian Army ➢ SURGEON VICE ADMIRAL in the Indian Navy ANANDIBAI JOSHI ❖ Anandibai Joshi Indian women qualify as a DOCTOR ❖ She believed to be the first INDIAN WOMEN to set foot On AMERICAN SOIL ❖ She graduated with a MD on 11 march 1886 from Drexel University college of medicine ❖ Topic of her thesis was “ OBSTETRICS AMONG THE ARYAN HINDUS “ ❖ She received a congratulatory message from Queen VICTORIA on her graduation. KADAMBINI GANGULY : ➢ The first female graduate from India ➢ Indian physician trained in WESTERN MEDICINE to graduate from South Asia ➢ She was the one who made Calcutta Medical college open its doors to WOMEN STUDENTS ➢ Everyone said women should not be educated But she did not GIVE UP ➢ She studied and became INDIA’S FIRST FEMALE GRADUATE and DOCTOR . DR VS PRIYA ❖ She is the first transgender AYURVEDIC doctor In kerala ❖ Dr vs Priya born as Jinu sasidharan ❖ She completed BAMS from Vaidya Ratnam Ayurveda College , later she took MD from Mangalore. SURJO KUMAR CHAKRABORTY ✓ He was the first Indian to pass the exam of the INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE in 1855 ✓ Subsequently he became the professor of MATERIA MEDICA at Calcutta Medical College in the half of nineteenth century ✓ He became the president of Bengal Branch of British Medical Association ✓ He published THE LANCET, the British medical journal and the Indian medical Gazette S I PADMAVATHI ❖ Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavathi was an INDIAN CARDIOLOGIST ❖ She was the director of National Heart institute Delhi ❖ She was the first WOMAN CARDIOLOGIST in India and established the first CARDIAC CLINIC and CATHETER LAB in India ❖ She was awarded India’s second highest civilian honor, THE PADMA VIBHUSHAN in 1992 VIJAYALAKSHMI RAMANAN ➢ The first IAF officer and also a DOCTOR ➢ Vijayalakshmi did MBBS from the MMC ➢ She was awarded the BALFOUR memorial medal For medicine ➢ Prize for SURGERY by the MADRAS university ➢ She was the first woman to wear SAREE as UNIFORM ➢ She also designed the UNIFORM THANK YOU JAI HIND.