Honorific Prefix: | Lieutenant General |
Rajshree Ramasethu | |
Allegiance: | India |
Serviceyears: | 1983 – 2022 |
Rank: | Lieutenant General |
Commands: | Armed Forces Medical College Military Hospital, Pune |
Lieutenant General Rajshree Ramasethu is a former general officer of the Indian Army. She is the fifth woman in the Indian Armed Forces and third in the Indian Army to be promoted to a Three-star rank. She last served as the Director and Commandant of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.
Ramasethu joined the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in 1979.[1]
Ramasethu was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps in December 1983. She did her post-graduation, earning the Doctor of Medicine degree in Internal Medicine. She subsequently underwent super specialisation in Nephrology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.[2]
Ramasethu has tenanted appointments of Consultant (medicine and Nephrology) at INHS Asvini, the naval hospital in Mumbai, and the Command Hospital Eastern Command in Kolkata.[3] She has also served as the Commandant of the Military Hospital, Chennai and as the Assistant Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff (Medical) (ACIDS Med) at HQ IDS.
As a Major General, Ramasethu served as the Senior Consultant (Medicine) in the office of the Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) in New Delhi.[4] She then served as Major General Medical at the Southern Command at Pune. On 16 September 2021, Ramasethu assumed the office of Director and Commandant of her alma-mater Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in the rank of Lieutenant General.[5]
Ramasethu has been awarded the Chief of the Army Staff Commendation Card three times - in 1995, 2011 and 2017.[6]
Special Service Medal | Sainya Seva Medal | |||
50th Anniversary of Independence Medal | 30 Years Long Service Medal | 20 Years Long Service Medal | 9 Years Long Service Medal |