Country’s first female cardiologist Dr. S Padmavati passes away at 103

Noted cardiologist and the first woman in the field Dr S. Padmavati has died at 103 years due to Covid-19. She passed away at the National Heart Institute on Sunday.

She was undergoing treatment at the institute for Covid for the past 11 days.

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Founder of NHI, she was born in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1917, a year before the world was hit by the Spanish Flu pandemic.
“She was admitted with COVID-19 and had breathing difficulty and fever. She developed pneumonia in both lungs and needed ventilator support. However, she sustained a cardiac arrest and passed away,” the NHI said.

She had migrated to India in 1942 during World War II.
Padmavati graduated from the Rangoon Medical College and went overseas for higher education, the statement said.
On her return to India, she joined as the faculty at the Lady Hardinge Medical College, it added.
In 1962, Dr Padmavati founded the All India Heart Foundation and went on to set up National Heart Institute in 1981 as a tertiary care modern heart hospital in Delhi with the first cardiac catheterization laboratory in the private sector in the Southern Hemisphere, the NHI said.

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