Mary Poonen Lukose

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Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and the first female Surgeon General in India.

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Mary Poonen Lukose was an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and the first female Surgeon General in India.

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Padma Shri in Medicine

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Mary Poonen Lukose was an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and the first female Surgeon General in India. She was the founder of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Nagarcoil and the X-Ray and Radium Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, served as the head of the Health Department in the Princely State of Travancore and was the first woman legislator of the state. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri in 1975.

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India