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Building India’s Medical Future: Sneh Bhargava and the First Four Decades of AIIMS.
In 1956, the All India Institutes of Medical Science, or AIIMS, was established thanks to the efforts of Health Minister Amrit Kaur to create a center that would serve a crucial triple purpose - not only to heal the sick, but to allow research to be carried out on the diseases unique to the Indian subcontinent, and most importantly, to train the medical personnel needed to bring a high standard of medical care to those remote regions of the nation that had effectively no mode
Dale DeBakcsy
6 days ago
“My Work Now Began” Susie King Taylor, Nurse to the 33rd US Colored Troops
On April 10, 1862, Union brigadier general Quincy Gillmore asked for the surrender of the Confederate stronghold, Fort Pulaski. When they refused, he used his newly arrived rifled cannons to decimate the stone wall of the fort, causing its quick surrender, and changing the local momentum of the war in the process. One of the great unspoken consequences of this victory was that it convinced the uncle of a fourteen year old girl named Susan Ann Baker (1848-1912) to leave the pl
Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 11
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