National Heart Foundation founder Dr Malik dies

National Heart Foundation Founder and renowned cardiologist National Professor Brigadier (Retd) Dr Abdul Malik has passed away.

He breathed his last due to old-age complications at National Heart Foundation at 9:40am on Wednesday. 

Setu, Public Relations Officer of the hospital, confirmed the matter to Jago News.

Dr Malik was awarded Independence Award for his contribution in medical science in 2004.

He was born on 1 December 1929 at Pashchimbhag village in South Surma of Sylhet. 

Dr Malik passed Matriculation Examination from Sylhet Government Pilot High School in 1947 with more than 75% marks, and Intermediate Examination from MC College, Sylhet in 1949 getting 11th position in whole Pakistan. 

He got admitted into Dhaka Medical College and passed MBBS in 1954. In 1955, he joined Pakistan Army Medical Corps and went to UK for higher education in 1963. There, he got the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1964 from Glasgow. From 1964 to 1966, he received higher training in Cardiology at Hammersmith Hospital, a Post Graduate Medical School under Imperial College London and some other hospitals in UK and returned to Pakistan in 1966.