Shershah Syed

[7] After MBBS from Dow Medical College, he moved to the UK and trained and worked in Ireland to become an obstetrician and gynecologist.

[8] He attained an MRCOG before returning to Pakistan where he started working for the Government of Sindh and was posted as assistant professor at Dow Medical College.

This depressed him changed his entire concept of practice and he lost interest in infertility and started working to prevent maternal death and suffering of women.

Realizing that the maternal death rate cannot be decreased without providing care to pregnant women and that will be only possible by training of midwives, with the help of UNICEF he established a number of new schools of midwifery in different parts of country.

He has regularly writing in the DAWN the largest circulating English newspaper on issues related to medical education and the health care system in Pakistan.