Dr. Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati, India's first female cardiologist, passed away at the age of 103 of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related complications, the National Heart Institute (NHI) had informed in a statement on late Saturday night.
Dr. Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati, India's first female cardiologist, passed away at the age of 103 of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related complications, the National Heart Institute (NHI) had informed in a statement on late Saturday night.
Dr. Padmavati was undergoing treatment at the NHI hospital in East of Kailash for the past 11 days, doctors said.
"Dr. S Padmavati, an eminent cardiologist, rather the first female cardiologist of India, popularly known as 'God Mother of Cardiology' passed away on August 29 due to COVID-19 infection," the NHI said in a statement.
The statement added, "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.".
At the same time, his funeral has also been made at the Kovid-19 crematorium in Punjabi Bagh on Sunday. According to the Union Home Ministry's guideline, a very small number of people were present for their final darshan.
Dr. Padmavati was cremated at the designated COVID-19 crematorium at Punjabi Bagh on Sunday, it said.
Notably, Dr. Padmavati was the founder of the NHI hospital, which was established in 1981 as a tertiary care modern heart hospital in Delhi with the first cardiac catheterisation laboratory in the private sector in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1962, Dr. Padmavati had also founded the All India Heart Foundation.
Born in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1917, a year before the world was hit by the Spanish Flu pandemic, she and her family had migrated to India in 1942 during World War II in the wake of the attack on Japan.
She graduated from the Rangoon Medical College and went overseas for higher education, eventually becoming the first female cardiologist in India.
She later joined as the faculty at the Lady Hardinge Medical College.
For her achievements and contributions to the development of cardiology in India, she was awarded Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology and FAMS, and Padma Bhushan in 1967 and Padma Vibhushan in 1992 by the Government of India.
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