Ghazna Khalid <br /> غزنہ خالد
| Ghazna Khalid غزنہ خالد | |
|---|---|
| Born | 09 July 1978 Quetta, Pakistan |
| 🏫 Education | M.B, B.S, FCPS |
| 🎓 Alma mater | St. Mary's High School, Quetta Bolan University of Medical & Health Sciences |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Ghazna Khalid (Urdu: غزنہ خالد; born 09 July 1978) is a Pakistani psychiatrist, neurologist, and a human rights activist.
Personal life
Ghazna Khalid was born in 1978, in Quetta. Her father, Rasul Khalid, was a colonel in the Pakistan Army and her mother, Taj Begum, a housewife. She grew up with her elder and two younger brothers in Quetta where her father was posted.
Education
In 1996, she completed her higher secondary education in sciences from St. Mary's High School, Quetta. In 2001, she completed her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Bolan University of Medical & Health Sciences.
Career
After completing her school in 2001, Ghazna Khalid started working at Pakistan Red Crescent Society in Quetta as a trainee consultant. Due to poor healthcare and lack of comprehensive medical services in Quetta, she specialized in neurosurgery.[1] She also serves as the visiting faculty at Bolan University of Medical & Health Sciences.
She is a professor and currently leads the neurosurgery department at Kew Institute in Quetta.[2] She also consults amputees and recovering persons with disabilities at National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in Islamabad as a specialist physician.[3]
Activism
She, along with her colleagues of Pakistan Medical Association, called a strike in August 2012 to call for the rescue of prominent psychiatrist and senior professor of Bolan Medical College Dr. Ghulam Rasool from the kidnappers, who was abducted in broad daylight during his way to his office.[4]
Ghazna Khalid is an advocate for neurologists in Balochistan, Pakistan. She frequently talks at various seminars and conferences highlighting the adverse need for qualified neurologists in Pakistan, especially in the city of Quetta.[5]
References
- ↑ "SC summons former Balochistan CMs to explain what they did for improvement in province", Dawn (newspaper), 09 April 2018. Retrieved on 28 August 2018.
- ↑ "Rehabilitation Therapy and Neuro Surgeon at KEW". Retrieved on 28 August 2018
- ↑ "Official communications facebook page of NIRM". Retrieved on 28 August 2018
- ↑ "Balochistan doctors: Strike over kidnapped psychiatrist enters day 11", Dawn (newspaper), Quetta, 11 August 2012. Retrieved on 28 August 2018.
- ↑ "‘Country has only 120 neurologists’", Dawn (newspaper), 29 December 2013. Retrieved on 28 August 2018.
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