Lt-Gen Sadhna Saxena Nair on Thursday( 1 August) took over as director general medical services (DGMS, Army), becoming the first woman doctor to be appointed to the position.

A woman, surgeon Vice-Admiral Arti Sarin, is already DGMS (Navy).

-Gen Nair, who also has distinction of three generations of her family having served in IAF over the last seven decades, was promoted to three-star rank of an Air Marshal (military doctors can be posted to another service) and took over as the director-general of hospital services (armed forces) in Oct last year.