Overview
- He suffered a sudden heart attack and was shifted to a private hospital for emergency treatment, but he could not be saved, according to a JPMC spokesperson.
- Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah called him one of the country’s best surgeons, while Governor Kamran Tessori and Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho also issued condolences.
- As executive director, he drove Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre’s modernization and championed patient‑centred care in the public sector.
- Under his leadership, JPMC launched a robotic surgery programme that performed its first robotic gallbladder removal in October 2023 and surpassed 300 procedures by 2024, with no fatalities reported in those cases.
- He earned international recognition, receiving an honorary degree from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2024 and an appointment earlier this year as International Adviser for Pakistan by a Royal College.