Flashback: A Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

Dr Mahmuda Ghulam Mohamed, was a leading gynecologist in Karachi.  She was Medical Superintendent of Lady Dufferin Hospital where this photo was taken, from the 1940s until her death in 1958, aged 47.  Under her direction, the Institute of Nursing was added to the hospital, and it became Pakistan’s pre-eminent maternity hospital.  After training at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi, and King Edward Medical College, Lahore, she went to Edinburgh (Scotland) for her postgraduate exams and in July 1939, she became the first Muslim woman doctor from pre-partition India to be elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. 

PHOTO & TEXT: YASMINE JAMIL & NILOFAR MINHAS

CONCEPT: SANAM MAHER


DESIGN: SAMRA AMIR

This August, The Express Tribune will feature photographs from contributions to an open call for images from the struggle for independence and Pakistan’s formative years.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 25^th, 2014.