OBITUARY – Major General (R) Muhammad Nasim Riaz

 

 

Month of June, this year, brought us the sad news of the demise of one of the senior anaesthesiologists of Pakistan, Major General (R) Muhammad Nasim Riaz who embarked on the journey to his heavenly abode, on 29 June 2011.

Gen Nasim Riaz was a colleague, a friend, an elder brother, a teacher and mentor to many of us from the anaesthesia fraternity of Pakistan Armed Forces. He was born in Attock City on 1st January 1944. He did his graduation from King Edward Medical College in 1969 and joined the Armed Forces during the 1971 war. He joined the specialty of anaesthesia in 1973 and, after serving at different military hospitals, joined the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology & National Institute of Heart Diseases (AFIC-NIHD) in 1981.

He was one of the pioneers in cardiac anaesthesia in Pakistan and worked as cardiac anaesthesiologist in AFIC-NIHD for 20 years, at the end of which he was promoted to the rank of Major General and served as Advisor in Anaesthesia at Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi from 2001 to 2004. He worked hard for the training and improvement of anaesthesia care in the Armed Forces and even after his retirement from Army, he played an important role in establishing the cardiac center at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad.

He was an honest and upright man, a disciplined soldier, a dedicated teacher and a very competent professional. The vacuum created by his death is hard to fill. May Allah bless his soul in eternal peace.

By: Brig Shahab Naqvi

 

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