The last moments of Indir Gandhi’s eyes pioneer – Lecar

Not much about the life of Bhargava’s life seems ordinary.

In 1984, she became the first woman to hit the Institute of Medical Sciences of India (AIIMS) in the capital of Delhi – one of the leading medical institutions in the country – and in her almost 70 -year history remains the only woman.

In 90, Dr. Bhargova – one of the pioneer radiologists of India – began to write memoirs, A woman who managed AIIMS, Which was published earlier this month and 95, continues to remain an active member in the medical community.

From the choice of X-ray, when in the 1940s it began, before becoming one of the most famous practitioners, the legacy of Dr. Bhargov is not only extraordinary.

Not unlike the first day at the AIIMS director, who was nothing but trial.

It was on the morning of October 31, 1984, and a meeting was held in the hospital to confirm the appointment after the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi chose her for his role.

Bhargov’s D -R -Bhargov was not a meeting, but her office considered medical cases. In her memoir, she recalls that a colleague who called for her, asking her to rush to the affected department.

There was a woman who chose Dr. Bhargava to head the hospital, Indira Gandhi. Her saffron sari was flooded with blood, and she had no pulse.

“At the time, I did not focus on being a prime minister who was lying in front of me,” Bhargov’s D -R -Bbc said. “My first thoughts were that we had to help her, as well as to protect her from further harm,” she said.

Dr. Bhargov was worried that the crowd would storm the House for Losses, as the large crowd had already started to gather outside the hospital.

The news began to come out: Gandhi was shot dead by two Sikham guards for revenge for the Blue Star operation, a military raid on the golden temple of Amritsar in June to snatch the militants.

Gandhi’s murder caused one of the most deadly riots that India saw, the beginning of which Dr. Bhargov began to hear when she was in a hurry to translate the Prime Minister to one of the upper floors of the building.

There, at the Operational Theater, the Sikh doctor fled the room at the moment when Gandhi died.

The news of her death had to be kept under wraps until her son Raji Gandhi swore to the Prime Minister.

“By the time our work for the next four hours, it was to keep the charad we tried to save her when she was actually died when she was brought to AIIMS,” writes Dr. Bhargova.

She also described the process of combating the body of the Prime Minister’s body, which will lie in the capital two days before cremation.

“Hemile with balm, when we introduced it into various main arteries, continued to monitor,” D -Bhargova writes. Later, a ballistic report revealed that more than three dozen bullets had punched Gandhi’s body.

But it was not the only wonderful episode in the long and glorious career of Dr. Bhargovy in AIIMS.

In the book, she shares her entertaining anecdotes of her interactions with other well -known politicians, including the first Prime Minister of India, Jawharlal Neru.

She also recalls how Sonia Gandhi brought her son, the young account of Aims after the arrow grazed his head while he was playing.

“Sonia Gandhi told me that she needed to bring back to us because Raji (her husband) met with King of Jordan, and the latter gave him a fantasy as a gift that her husband sought to manage,” she writes in the book.

Raji Gandhi wanted to let him down to Aims, without security as a surprise, but Dr. Bhargava firmly stopped it, citing security problems.

But not every day was as exciting.

Dr. Bhargava reminds of political pressure, including a deputy who threatened her for not choosing his son -in -law at AIIMS.

Other times, two leading politicians, including the Federal Secretary of Health, tried to find the AIIMS Dean – although the decision was only.

Dr. Bhargova says she was firmly against the pressure, always preferring patient care. It worked on the establishment of radiology as the main part of the diagnosis and treatment in AIIMS.

When Dr. Bhargava entered the 1960s, AIIMS had only the basic visualization instruments. She trained colleagues to read thin signs in black and white X-rays, always in the context of the patient’s history. Later, she pushed for better equipment, helping to build one of the leading radiological departments of India.

Dr. Bhargov has always been brought to change.

Born in 1930 in a wealthy family in Lahora in unrequited India, as a child she loved playing doctors to her dolls and siblings. During the division of India and Pakistan, the Dr. Bhargava family fled to India, and later she would visit refugee camps with her father to help people.

At a time when a few Indian women received a higher education, D -R Bhargava studied radiology in London – the only woman in her class and in the hospital.

She returned to India in the 1950s, hearing from her teacher that the country needs qualified radiologists.

Dr. Bhargov often attributes her family, and her husband’s liberal stupidity helped her achieve her dream, and she hopes that other Indian women will find the same support.

“It starts with childhood,” she says.

“Parents need to support their daughters just as they support their sons. Only then will they be able to break the glass ceilings and get to the stars.”

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