DMC Class of 1989 announced their Silver Jubilee Class Project Project: Pathology Lab in CHK with focus on timely interpretation of frozen sections; with plan to expand the services to include histopathology . Need: Currently there are no arrangements for frozen sections at CHK and patients spent 1-2 hours under anesthesia unnecessarily while the surgeonRead More
Medicos Struggle 1956
Medicos Struggle 1956. Strikes by students of Dow Medical College Karachi to highlight their demands. Photo courtesy of Dr. Sayeed Ahmed MD Houston, Texas. To see more details in the photo please click on it.
The Distinguished Career of Dr. Sultan Ahmed Recognized by Dow Alumni
This article is related to the recognition of Dr. Sultan Ahmed (Dow 1963) for his life long services to Dow and CHK. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 July 2006 S. Sultan Ahmed, MD, SQA, Dr. Sultan Ahmed entered Dow Medical College in 1958 after obtaining B.Sc. from D.J. Science College, Karachi.Read More
Dow Athletes1956
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was an eminent Bengali nationalist, liberal democrat, politician and statesman during the first half of the twentieth century. He served as the Prime Minister of Bengal in British India and was the fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan.[1][1][2] Born into a prominent Bengali Muslim family, Suhrawardy was educated at Oxford, and joined the Swaraj Party of Chittaranjan Das upon returning to India in 1921. He became the Mayor of Calcutta,Read More
Professor Fazal Elahi Remembered
Prof. Fazal Elahi was Prof of Surgery and Head of Department Of Surgery at Dow & CHK. We honoured his memory, with a plenary lecture dedicated to him in Surgicon 2013 conference, organized by the Society of Surgeons Pakistan, Karachi Chapter, in December 2013. Dr. Rizwan Azami, Vice President, College of Physician Surgeon Pakistan, wrote andRead More
Writing Progress
Dow Medical College Roll of Honor October 1956
Roll of Honour October 1956. Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmed Sayeed MD. To see the captions clearly please click on the photo. Please comment on the present whereabouts of the above honorees if known. Amin H. Karim MD
Hygiene Trip to Haleji Lake 1956
Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmed Sayeed MD, Houston. Department of Hygiene has a long tradition of field visits to areas of Public Health interest. It must have started in the 1950’s and continued to the late 1970’s (not sure when the last Hygiene trip was) but there were none in 1990 per Dr. MasroorRead More
Save Our Civil Hospital (SOCH)
Dow student volunteers at work cleaning Civil Hospital Karachi. Photo courtesy of Dr. Naseem Shekhani MD.
Where Are the Dowites? Last Name R
This is a list that is “in progress” and names are being added adhoc as we come to know. Please feel free to send in corrections and let us know what and where you are, if possible with an old and recent photo. MOHUMMAD RAZA MD, Dow 1958, Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Bridgeport, Conn. USA.