About the Book: The Woman Who Ran AIIMS: The Memoirs of a Medical Pioneer
Dr Sneh Bhargava, born in 1930, is one of the first Indian women to qualify as
a radiologist. She was the very first and, so far, only woman to head AIIMS in
its decades-long history. On her first day on the job as AIIMS director, in
1984, Dr Bhargava had to deal with a monumental crisis: Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi had been shot and was brought to AIIMS. In this book, we get a riveting
first-hand account of this harrowing story and other gripping tales from the
annals of medicine.