Ali Ahmed S Kazi

Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi as Medical Superintendent Civil Hospital Karachi

Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi (1896–1970) was one of the few physicians when Sindh was created as a province in British India in 1936.

Family

He was born in 1896 and was a nephew of the great intellectual Allama I. I. Kazi and his illustrious wife Elsa Kazi. His father, Sharafuddin Kazi died when he was still quite young.

Career

Dr A. S. Kazi played a pioneering role initially in creating the Liaquat Medical College now the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences from the existing medical school at Hyderabad. Subsequently he directed his attention to the strengthening and consolidation of the Dow Medical College at Karachi^[1]. He was appointed as the first Medical Superintendent of Civil Hospital Karachi ^[2] in 1949. Subsequently in 1952, he was appointed Director [presently Director General] Health Services for the Sindh province. He retired from service in 1955.

Life after retirement

He devoted his time to writing books on clinical subjects and psychology. One of his books on psychology is a textbook for the Masters in Psychology course at the University of Sindh.

Death

Dr Kazi died in 1970 leaving behind his widow, a son the late Mr Ahmed Hussain A Kazi - a civil servant who was a Secretary to the Government of Pakistan from 1974–1979, and three grand-children Nilofer Qureshi, Safdar Kazi and Ghulam Nabi Kazi.

See also

• Allama I. I. Kazi
• Elsa Kazi
• Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi
• Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi
• Ghulam Nabi Kazi
• Justice Mushtak Ali Kazi
• Justice Bashir Ghulam Nabi Kazi
• Mutawakkil Kazi
• Civil Hospital Karachi
• Liaquat Medical College
• Dow Medical College

References

1. ^ An introduction to Dow Medical College Karachi
2. ^ An introduction to Civil Hospital Karachi

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Date of death	1970
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