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  "id": 11508440,
  "title": "Surgeon Rear Admiral Jandhyala Sridhar assumes charge as Command Medical Officer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/surgeon-rear-admiral-jandhyala-sridhar-assumes-charge-as-command",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-02T19:17:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/surgeon-rear-admiral-jandhyala-sridhar-assumes-charge-as-command-medical-officer/article71538239.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Thursday, Surgeon Rear Admiral Jandhyala Sridhar took up his new role as Command Medical Officer at the Headquarters Eastern Naval Command. Commissioned into the Indian Navy on June 30, 1993, Admiral Sridhar is a graduate of Timpany School, Visakhapatnam, and the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. As a dermatology specialist, he boasts over three decades of service in the navy. His key appointments include Commanding Officer of INHS Kalyani in Visakhapatnam during the COVID-19 pandemic, Director and Dean of the Institute of Naval Medicine at INHS Asvini in Mumbai, and Senior Adviser at both INHS Asvini and INHS Sanjivani. Prior to his current position, he worked as Consultant Dermatology at Command Hospital (Eastern Command) in Kolkata.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}