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Karachi 1957: Dow Medical College Karachi. Girl students went on a hunger strike with the following demands: 1) Better hostel facilities, (2) Better lending library (3) Passing marks should be 50% instead of 60% and other demands. Then Prime Minister of Pakistan Marhoom Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy visited the College and met with the students, reassuringRead More
The Birth of Young Medicos Organization 1957: YMO was a student organization in Dow Medical College that was formed for the purpose of working for the students of Dow and instilling in them a sense of community service. With time it became a “political organization” fielding candidates for the cabinet of Dow Medical College Students’Read More
Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmed Sayeed Houston, Texas. Magazine Secretary of DMC Student’s Union with his friends on hunger strike to press for the student’s demands of a library and other facilities at the medical school.
Medicos Struggle 1956. Strikes by students of Dow Medical College Karachi to highlight their demands. Photo courtesy of Dr. Sayeed Ahmed MD Houston, Texas. To see more details in the photo please click on it.
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was an eminent Bengali nationalist, liberal democrat, politician and statesman during the first half of the twentieth century. He served as the Prime Minister of Bengal in British India and was the fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan.[1][1][2] Born into a prominent Bengali Muslim family, Suhrawardy was educated at Oxford, and joined the Swaraj Party of Chittaranjan Das upon returning to India in 1921. He became the Mayor of Calcutta,Read More
Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmed Sayeed MD, Houston. Department of Hygiene has a long tradition of field visits to areas of Public Health interest. It must have started in the 1950’s and continued to the late 1970’s (not sure when the last Hygiene trip was) but there were none in 1990 per Dr. MasroorRead More
Dow Medical College Roll of Honor 1957. Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmed Sayeed MD. Dr. Akther Ahmed in the Final Year Roll of Honour. Dr. Ahmed returned from UK to run the Department of Neurology, Civil Hospital Karachi and was a mentor and teacher to many Dowites in 1960s and 70’s. Dr. Hameeda Shariff, RollRead More
Visitors to the Dow Medical College Karachi 1956-57. Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmed Sayeed, Houston. To view the photo closely, click on the photo.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmed Sayeed, Class of 1960.
Editorial Board Dowlite Magazine 1957. Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmed Sayeed, Houston, Dowite 1960.
