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Professor Said ul Haque was born on 8th April1943
in India. His family migrated to Pakistan after
partition in 1947. His father Dr Sultan Ali served
meritoriously as an officer in the Pakistan Armed
Forces and was decorated with award of
“Tamgha-e-Pakistan.
Said ul Haque completed his medical schooling
from King Edward Medical College Lahore
worked at various training and governments
positions, obtained his postgraduate
qualifications and was selected for the prestigious
position of Assistant Professor, in the subject of
Pediatrics.
Health facilities for children in the Punjab in those
times of 1960-70 could at best be called “not up
to the mark” being provided mostly by personnel
working for adult patients. There was a need to
develop services and personnel for children. Said
ul Haque accepted this challenge and initiated
plans to establish a children hospital with
subspecialties and other child health related
educational programmes “all under one roof”.
This was not easy. Timely governmental
approvals, funding, construction, supplies
equipment, staffing were organized by him with
consistent honest hard work, unshakable faith, in
Allah, determination, self sacrifice rare ability of
getting the job done, selection of right person for
the right job, loss of personal income from
professional and other pursuits and multiple
qualities of head and heart. The goal was
achieved in an amazingly short period of time
and he lived to run the affairs of the functioning
Institute and hospital as a professor of Pediatrics
and Dean.
Said ul Haque served Pakistan Pediatric Journal
as managing editor and bibliographer, then
progressed to become editor and later chief
editor (all honorary) for almost four decades with
devotion and commitment and he was working
on the “journal even at his death-bed. The journal
now stands indexed by major national and
International agencies.
His contributions for the well being pediatricians
will endure. The training programmes in pediatric
subspecialties will benefit the future generations
of pediatricians. Children will continue to benefit
from the facilities at the hospital he set up.
He was instrumental in governmental sanction for
posts of pediatricians in district and other
hospitals of the province. Sick children in
government hospitals will continue to benefit
from services provided by pediatricians
appointed against these posts.
Said ul Haque was a simple, humble man, lived
modestly, a practicing Muslim, raised a good
family and lived to witness results of his
endeavors. He leaves behind an edifice where
his memory will live for generations to come.
Prof. Muhammad Ashraf Sultan, Prof. Humayun Iqbal Khan. (2016) We announce with profound grief that Professor Said ul Haque, Ex-Dean Children’s Hospital and Institute of Child Health and Editor in Chief of Pakistan Pediatric Journal, died on 7th April 2016,after a long battle with renal failure and its complications., Pakistan Pediatric Journal, Volume 40, Issue 2.
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