Indian Armed Forces Gets First Woman Director General Of Medical Service

Lt Gen Nair was also the first woman to serve as the Director of General Hospital Services (Armed Forces).

Lieutenant General Sadhna Saxena Nair has become the first woman to be appointed the Director General of Medical Services.

She was also the first woman to serve as the Director of General Hospital Services (Armed Forces) as well as the first woman to be the Principal Medical Officer of the Western Air Command.

She graduated from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune with a distinguished academic record and was commissioned into the Army Medical Corps in Dec 1985.