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Ghazna Khalid <br /> غزنہ خالد

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Ghazna Khalid
غزنہ خالد
Born09 July 1978
Quetta, Pakistan
🏫 EducationM.B, B.S, FCPS
🎓 Alma materSt. 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[edit]

Ghazna Khalid was born in 1978, in Quetta, her father Rasul Khalid was a colonel in the Pakistan Army and mother Taj Begum a housewife. She grew up with his elder and two younger brothers in Quetta where her father was posted.

Education[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

She along with her colleagues of Pakistan medical association called a strike in August, 2012 to call for rescue of prominent psychiatrist and senior professor of Bolan Medical College Dr. Ghulam Rasool from the kidnappers, who was abducted along in broad daylight during his way to his office.[4]

Ghazna Khalid is an advocate of neurologists in Balochistan, Pakistan. She frequently talks at various seminars and conferences highlighting the adverse need of qualified neurologists in Pakistan, especially in the city of Quetta.[5]

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