Thursday, July 31, 2008

First Sikh Doc in Pak History Vows to Treat Patients Without Discrimination

Dr Mimpal Singh, the first Sikh doctor in the history of Pakistan, has vowed to treat his patients without any discrimination on the basis of caste, colour, creed or gender.
A registrar with the prestigious Mayo Hospital, he has topped the Diploma in Child Health exam of Services Institute of Medical Sciences. Singh became the first Pakistani Sikh to pass the DCH. Singh said that the Sikh community did not have access to such professional institutes because of a lack of quota system.

\"I am the first Sikh MBBS doctor in the country\'s history and want to serve my country. My Muslim patients like me a lot. I do not discriminate against my patients on the bases of caste, colour, creed or gender,\" said Dr Mimpal Singh on Sunday.

The Sikh doctor was born in Nankana Sahib.

He said he had set up a clinic \"Sardar Ji Health Clinic\" at Shadbagh. Singh and was also running a non-government organisation Guru Nanak Mission. \"Literacy rate among Pakistani Sikhs is low. There is only one Sikh officer in Pakistan Army and one is serving as a traffic warden in Lahore,\" the Daily Times quoted him as saying.

He said the government should review its policy regarding minorities\' rights. Poor but talented Sikh youth should be admitted to government and non-government educational institutes to help them get higher education, said the doctor.
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