Muthulakshmi Reddy : Physician and Social Reformer (1886 - 1968)
First female legislator in India
Major achievements: First female legislator in India; Padma Bhushan recipient; first female student to be admitted to a men's college; first woman House Surgeon in the Government Maternity and Ophthalmic Hospital
- The achievements above don't even cover all of the things Muthulakshmi Reddi accomplished during her lifetime. She was also a big activist and social reformer—she was one of the women pioneers who stood for the cause of liberating India from the British. And in 1954, she opened a hospital for cancer patients, Adyar Cancer Institute—it was only the second of its kind in India and is still a world-renowned institution today.
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