Shiv Pande

Shiv Pande MBE DL FRCGP (Hindi: शिव पांडे; born 25 October 1938) is an Indian-born general practitioner (GP) doctor in the United Kingdom.

In the 1980s, Pande presented the UK's Asian television programme Aap Kaa Hak, which ran for fourteen years.

[1] He initially worked in accident and emergency at the Royal Albert Infirmary, Wigan, followed by a position as a registrar[1] in cardio-thoracic surgery at the London Chest Hospital, during which time his wife travelled from India to join him.

[1] This practice belonged to a Goan GP, Dr Paes, whose Welsh wife, Dilys, took care of the paperwork and whose daughter carried out the role of receptionist.

However, as an independent practitioner with some autonomy in decision-making, Pande had the freedom to appoint assistance from a nurse, and in Liverpool was the first single-handed GP to do so.

[2][9] In 1996, Pande initiated and oversaw the pilot of the first part of the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) test to be held in India.

[5][11] A year later, hoping to achieve a similar success as the music world had done for the Ethiopian famine victims with Band Aid,[12] he raised £20,000[5] for Mother Teresa's charity and the orphans of the Bhopal gas disaster by[13] forming for the first time, a combined India-Pakistan XI cricket team to play against "the rest of the world".

[13][15] Players included Clive Lloyd as captain of "the rest of the world",[16] with Desmond Haynes, Alvin Kallicharran, Peter Lever and Graeme Fowler amongst others from Britain, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand.

[13] The India-Pakistan team was captained by Gundappa Viswanath, and included Madan Lal, Kirti Azad, Dilip Doshi, Mudassar Nazar, Mohsin Khan and others.

[12] Pande personally presented the raised funds to Mother Teresa and the then prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi.