Rajnath Awards RM Trophy for Best Command Hospitals

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New Delhi : Defence Minister Rajnath Singh awarded Raksha Mantri Trophy for the Best and Second Best Command Hospitals of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) for the year 2018 here on July 16, 2019. Command Hospital Air Force Bengaluru and Command Hospital Central Command Lucknow were adjudged the Best and the Second-Best Command Hospital respectively. The awards were received by Air Vice Marshal Deepak Gaur and Maj Gen Vivek Sharma, the commandants of the two respective hospitals.

Rajnath while complementing the two hospitals on their outstanding performance, acknowledged the commendable service being rendered by the AFMS ranging from combat medical support to troops deployed in operational roles to state-of-the-art healthcare services at mid-zonal, zonal, and tertiary care hospitals of the AFMS. He said since the time of Acharya Charak medical profession and its proponents have been revered by the society and exhorted that endeavour should be made by these Command hospitals to maintain it.

Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) and Senior Col Comandant, Army Medical Corps, Lt Gen Bipin Puri  emphasised the preparedness of the AFMS to meet all challenges in providing medical support both during operations and in peacetime as well as when called upon to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. The Raksha Mantri Trophy was instituted in 1989 to recognise excellence in healthcare services provided by Command Hospitals of the AFMS and to foster a spirit of healthy competition among them, according to a PIB release.

The award ceremony was attended by Minister of State for Defence Shripad Yesso Naik, Chief of the Army Staff General Bipin Rawat, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra and other officials.