Dr. Kanwal Vilku - Sikhs The Supreme

The ONLY Indian woman who has spent winters on the Antarctica is Dr. Kanwal Vilku. For her this feat she was honoured by the President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in New Delhi on the occasion of foundation day celebrations of the Department of Ocean Development on July 27, 2004. She stormed the male bastion at the age of 52 and spent 16 months from Dec. 1999 on Antarctica with a group of 24 scientists conducting experiments. Her job was to ensure that no member of the team had any medical problem. Besides she also studied the effect of the South Pole's magnetism on the human body. She has a masters degree in transfusion medicine from PGI Chandigarh. She had been with her husband Col.K.S. Vilku to the snowy high attitudes of Ladakh, H.P., Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram. She has served as Chief Medical Officer, incharge of CGHF Dispensary in Sector 45, Chandigarh.

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