Dr Sivaramakrishna Iyer, cardiologist
Dr Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati, a pioneering cardiologist who had established the country’s first cardiac care unit at Delhi’s Govind Ballabh Pant hospital, died of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the night on August 29, 2020. She was 103.
Born in Myanmar, she fled to India after the Japanese invasion during World War II and became the country’s first woman cardiologist.
She was diagnosed with Covid-19 11 days ago and was admitted to the National Heart Institute (NHI), which she had founded in 1981.
“Although on oxygen, she was fairly stable till Saturday morning when there was an acute drop in the oxygen saturation. She had to be put on a ventilator and passed away at night. Even though her body had given up on her – she was wheelchair bound for the last five years – she was ...