Dr Mir Samiullah empanelled as a UNICEF health consultant

SRINAGAR — Dr. Mir Samiullah, a resident of Shopian who left job in United Kingdom’s Kings College Hospital to start his own super-specialty Star Hospital in Srinagar’s uptown Sanat Nagar area, has been roped in by world health body UNICEF as a health consultant for Kashmir region.

Sources said that UNICEF has approached Dr Mir Samiullah and decided to appoint him as a health consultant for Kashmir Valley. “Dr. Samiullah has been empanelled as a consultant, for meeting health consultation requirements of UNICEF staff in the wake of COVID-19,” an emailed statement from UNICEF said.

Dr Mir Samiullah is a reputed surgeon and has been a pioneer in upgrading the bar of high-end surgical procedures in private health sector of Valley. He has to his credit vast number of surgical procedures and research work.

When contacted, Dr Mir Samiullah confirmed that UNICEF wants him to be the health consultant for Kashmir. “It’s an honor and privilege to work with UNICEF,” Mir said.

Having done his schooling from Burn Hall School, he did his MBBS from Jammu, then MCH from Hyderabad and later joined Kings College Hospital for two years. Dr. Samiullah has worked in prestigious hospitals in private sector in other States as well as in government hospitals in Kashmir.

He hails from Khillan village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district.

CORRIGENDUM: Dr Mir Samiullah had earlier been inadvertently described as ‘appointed as medical advisor by UNICEF for the Kashmir region’. This stands now corrected.