Centre Appoints Women Directors to Lead Three Major Hospitals in Delhi
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Officials view the move as an important administrative step towards expanding women’s representation in senior healthcare leadership positions.
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has appointed women directors to head three major government-run medical institutions in Delhi, including ABVIMS and RML Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College, and VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital.
Dr Akhilandeshwari Prasad has been appointed director of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital with immediate effect.
A senior specialist in radiodiagnosis, Dr Prasad has been associated with the institution for nearly three decades in both academic and administrative roles.
Dr Prasad said her focus would include strengthening patient-focused care, ensuring uninterrupted essential services, operationalising the super-speciality block, modernising infrastructure and accelerating integrated paperless healthcare systems.
She also said efforts would be directed towards improving teaching, research and clinical training while expanding the institution’s academic and healthcare capacities.
Dr Himani Ahluwalia has been appointed director of Lady Hardinge Medical College, where she has been serving as director professor in the Department of Physiology. She is expected to assume charge in July.
Established in 1916, the institution remains one of India’s leading medical colleges and has historically played a major role in women’s medical education and healthcare services.
Meanwhile, Dr Kavita Rani Sharma has been named director of Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College with immediate effect.
She had earlier been given additional charge as director in March and previously served as director professor in the Department of Anaesthesia.
Dr Sharma noted that Safdarjung Hospital handles nearly 13,000 outpatient visits daily and functions as one of India’s largest tertiary care institutions with multiple super-speciality departments.
She stated that her key priorities would be strengthening patient care, medical education and research activities at the institution.
The appointments were made following the completion of the terms of the previous directors in recent months.
Officials view the move as an important administrative step towards expanding women’s representation in senior healthcare leadership positions.
The latest appointments are also expected to influence ongoing efforts around healthcare digitisation, hospital operations and academic expansion in the public sector.
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