The first woman anesthetist in the world, Hakeem Rupa Bai Furdoonji of Hyderabad "had administered anesthesia in the British Residency Hospital, Afzalganj Hospital and Zenana Hospital, Hyderabad, in the years 1889-1917,” notes a paper titled "Dr (Miss) Rupa Bai Furdoonji: World’s first qualified lady anesthetist” by N. Ala, K. Bharathi, P. K. J. P. Subhaktha, M. Gundeti and A. Ramachari published in the May-June 2010 issue of the Indian Journal of Anaesthesia as reported in Telangana Today of July 21, 2017. At that time there was neither separate specialty like anesthesiology nor a separate specialist like anesthesiologist — surgeons used......