PUNE: Lt Gen Bipin Puri, Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) and Senior Colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps (AMC), inaugurated the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) facility in the Department of Pathology of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC).
The equipment was first acquired in 1964. AFMC was one of the first medical colleges in the country with this facility. With the older equipment being phased out, the college has now acquired this new TEM, which is of immense utility for advanced disease diagnosis.
Lt Gen Puri lauded the efforts of the college and emphasized the importance of this new sophisticated TEM facility that will encourage useful evaluation of ultra structural data in myriad biological specimens and path-breaking research by investigators.
Surgeon Vice Admiral Ravi Kalra, the Director and Commandant said that the college is privileged to have this facility which shall be maximally utilised. Maj Gen RM Gupta, VSM, Dean and Deputy Commandant called this event a landmark in the history of AFMC and impressed upon the great utility of TEM in basic research being carried out at the recently established Multi Disciplinary Research Unit (MDRU).
The DGAFMS also inaugurated the college Museum, which chronicles the illustrious past of AFMC. The Museum showcases the milestones of the college, as well as achievements of its alumni, spread all over the world.
The Arjuna Award of Dr Otilia Mascarenhas, National Women’s Hockey Team captain in the 70s and the South Asian Games Gold Medal for Athletics of Lt Gen Yogendra Singh, both alumni of this college, find place of pride in the museum along with several other souvenirs and memorabilia gifted to the college.
