Vice Admiral Rajat Datta appointed as next DG Armed Forces Medical Services ANI | Updated: Dec 23, 2020 02:16 IST
New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): Surgeon Vice-Admiral Rajat Datta has been appointed as the new Director-General of Armed Forces Medical Services and would be the seniormost medical officer of the armed forces in India.
He will replace incumbent Lieutenant General Anup Bannerjee and assume the office on January 1, 2021. He will have a tenure of 23 months.
Datta is an alumnus of Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and after completing his MBBS in 1982, was commissioned into AMC on 27 Dec 1982.
Thereafter, he went on to do his post-graduate studies in General Medicine viz MD and DNB from Bangalore University and National Board of Examinations respectively in 1990 followed by Doctorate of Medicine (DM) in Cardiology from Pune University in 1998. He is a Fellow of Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions USA. He a
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