Colonel (Dr) Ashok Tyagi, YSM (Retd),
commissioned into the Army in 1977, is a Bachelor
of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) and Post
Graduate (General Surgery) from Armed Forces
Medical College (AFMC), Pune and a qualified
combat Sky Diver. He was deployed with 4 Infantry
Division Field Ambulance in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka
as part of IPKF. His reputation as a successful
surgeon resulted in his figuring prominently on the
kidnap list of LTTE, the dominant Tamil militant
group in Sri Lanka, who were willing to ‘weigh him in
gold’ to get him to treat their wounded cadres!
