{"id":23697,"date":"2021-12-21T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=23697"},"modified":"2021-12-21T11:53:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:53:52","slug":"renowned-haematologist-dr-tahir-shamsi-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/23697","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Haematologist Dr. Tahir Shamsi Passes Away."},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to 24 News, Pakistan’s renowned haematologist and bone marrow transplant pioneer Dr. Tahir Shamsi breathed his last at a private hospital in Karachi on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Dr. Tahir Shamsi had been under treatment after undergoing surgery last week following suffering a brain hemorrhage. Dr. Shamsi was in the intensive care unit of the Aga Khan University Hospital and his condition was reported to be critical.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Tahir Shamsi is credited with introducing bone-marrow transplant in Pakistan in 1995 and so far, he had performed some 650 bone-marrow transplants and written over 100 research articles in international journals.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the Dow Graduates Association of North America had honored the Pakistani doctor with a lifetime achievement award in recognition of his services.<\/p>\n

During the first wave of coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Tahir Shamsi came up with the idea of treating Covid-19 patients using the plasma of those who recovered from the virus.<\/p>\n

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In 2011, Dr. Shamsi had established the National Institute for Blood Disease for the treatment of blood-related diseases and he was head of the facility. He was also the director of the Stem Cell Program at NIBD as well. He was a Royal College of Pathologist fellow. Dr. Tahir Shami was also on the government\u2019s medical board which carried out the medical treatment in Lahore of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Web Desk: According to 24 News, Pakistan’s renowned haematologist and bone marrow transplant pioneer Dr. Tahir Shamsi breathed his last at a private hospital in Karachi on Tuesday morning. Dr. Tahir Shamsi had been under treatment after undergoing surgery last week following suffering a brain hemorrhage. Dr. Shamsi was in the intensive care unit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23702,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions\/23702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}