Surgeon Rear Admiral Arti Sarin assumed command of INHS Asvini, the flagship hospital of the Indian Navy, from Surgeon Rear Admiral Sheila S Mathai, at a ceremonial parade on 30 Jan 21.
She was commissioned into the Armed Forces Medical Services in December 1985. She has the distinction of having completed two post graduate degrees – MD in Radiology at AFMC Pune and in DNB Radiation Oncology from the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. In addition, she has trained in Gamma Knife Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, a Defence release said.
In a long naval career, she has done tenures at Naval Science & Technology Laboratories Visakhapatnam, and served in the naval hospitals at Port Blair, Visakhapatnam, Kochi and Mumbai, it said. She has been in Kochi since February 20 and has been spearheading the Southern Naval Command, Kochi’s fight against COVID-19 pandemic by overseeing the designing and developing innovative solutions and setting up quarantine facilities in the Southern Naval Command.
Surgeon Rear Admiral Sheila S Mathai takes over as the Command Medical Officer, Headquarters Western Naval Command.
The event assumes significance in that not many Armed Forces have a precedent of a handing taking over between two women Flag officers.
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Surgeon Rear Admiral Arti Sarin assumed command of INHS Asvini, the flagship hospital of the Indian Navy, from Surgeon Rear Admiral Sheila S Mathai, at a ceremonial parade.
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Surgeon Rear Admiral Sheila S Mathai takes over as the Command Medical Officer, HQ Western Naval Cmd. pic.twitter.com/SRW7JkA7Br
