It was also the first time that a woman had held the position of CMO in the Southern Naval Command (File)
Kochi:
For the first time in the history of the Indian Navy, a couple holds the position of chief medical officer of the naval commands of the south and the east.
While Arti Sarin assumed the duties of chief medical officer of the command of the Southern Naval Command, based in Kochi, during his promotion to the rank of rear admiral surgeon, her husband, rear admiral CS Naidu, is currently the doctor -Chief of command, Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam.
Defense sources said it was the first time in the history of the Indian Navy that the husband and wife served together as chief medical officers of two commands.
It was also the first time that a woman had served as CMO in the Southern Naval Command, they said.
Arti Sarin is a former student of Timpany School, Visakhapatnam and a graduate of the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College.
She was commissioned in the medical services of the armed forces in December 1985.
She has the distinction of having obtained two graduate degrees – MD in radiology at AFMC Pune and in DNB Radiation Oncology from Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.
In addition, she trained in gamma knife surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, according to a Defense statement.
During a long career in the navy, she held positions at Naval Science & Technology Laboratories Visakhapatnam, and served in naval hospitals in Port Blair, Visakhapatnam, Kochi and Mumbai, the statement said.
She has been in Kochi since February 20 and led the Southern Naval Command, Kochi’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by overseeing the design and development of innovative solutions and by establishing quarantine facilities in the Southern Naval Command.
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