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  • Blood Pressure Prevalence in Karachi 2018

    BLOOD PRESSURE PREVALENCE IN KARACHI: High blood pressure (BP) is one of the leading risk factors for global disease burden, accounting for 17% of all deaths worldwide . The approximate number of adults with elevated BP has increased from 594 million in 1975 to 1.13 billion in 2015, 258 million of whom were living in…

  • DMC 5th Annual Convocation 1979-80

    SouvenirAnnualConvo79-80 Here is the Souvenir published at the occation of the 5th Annual Convocation in 1979-80. Chair person of the convocation committee was Late Prof. Razia Latif Ansari. The President of the Students’ Union was Dr. Naseem Azeez Shaikhani, who is currently in St. Louis USA and is the President Elect 2019 of the Association…

  • Prof. Habib Patel

    Prof. Habib Patel was born in 1912 in India. He was an outstanding student at the Grant Medical College, Bombay and was appointed to the faculty in 1941. He was invited by the Government of Sindh in 1947 to come over to Pakistan which he did and joined Dow Medical College and Civil Hospital Karachi…

  • The DMC Logo

    Logo of our alma mater Dow Medical College. Dow University of Health Sciences has taken it over but for us it will always be Dow Medical College, Karachi, the first medical school in Karachi and the only one for 30 years. Amin H. Karim MD

  • The Artists of Dow 1970

    Talent abounded in Dow Medical College.  Drs. Usman Sadiq Baluch (Class of 1973) and Dr. Nasser Mahmood (Class of 1973) made pencil sketches which were published in the Namood-e-Sahar of 1970 (Silver Jubilee edition) Amin H. Karim MD

  • Namood-e-Sahar Silver Jubilee Edition 1970

    Here is the Namood-e-Sahar 1970 Special Silver Jubilee Edition. Dow Medical College Karachi was established in 1945 and celebrated it’s Silver Jubilee in 1970. I am indebted to Dr. Syed Hamid Zaki for sharing his copy for scanning. Regards Amin H. Karim MD NamoodeSahar1970SilverJubPart1 NamoodeSahar1970SilverJubPart2  

  • DowLite International 1976-77 (Quaid Number)

    DowLite International 76-77 The above link opens up the entire DowLite International 1976-77 Issue in the .pdf format and you can read it on your computer. There are many interesting articles by Dow students, photos of the events in those days. If you have similar souvenirs please contact me at globelinker@gmail.com and I will advise…

  • Dow Medical College Class of 1960

    Dow Medical College Class of 1960: The photo is now fully tagged thanks to Irfan Rizvi, Dr. Ali Junshyd (a retired radiologist with V.A. Hospital in Houston, Texas, and Mr. Mazhar Kazi (who has worked with Dr. Rizvi as pathologist in the past. Currently he is in Houston). Dr. Bashir Ahmed is in Arlington, Texas…

  • Where are You: Last Name N

    Dr. Naseem in Florida.  Class of 1964.  Please contact Dr. Nisar Ahmed in Houston; nisarahmedmd@yahoo.com

  • Dow’s Were the Days

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