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Dr. (Prof.) Sheila Singh Paul, MRCP, FRCP, DCH, DTM (12 September 1916 - 11 January 2001) was the Founder and Director of Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital, New Delhi. She was the first Indian woman to be given such a huge responsibility and she was only 40 years old at that time. She is a pioneer in the field of pediatrics in India. Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital is one of the largest children hospitals in Asia and was Delhi's first independent children's hospital and not just a department. The Hospital was inaugurated on 17 March 1956 by Lady Edwina Mountbatten. It was built from the proceeds of the property donated by Mr Raghubir Saran and Mr Raghunandan Saran of New Delhi and was named after the wife of late Mr Raghubir Saran. It has a separate department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for which the initial electrical and electronic equipment was donated by the Government of USSR (Soviet Union). Dr. Sheila Singh Paul was also the professor of Pediatrics at Lady Hardinge Medical College. She was one of the founding members of the Indian Pediatrics Society and the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. She was a pioneer in creating and promoting polio vaccine campaigns in India and in introducing specialists trained in pediatric physiotherapy from the USSR, to train medical professionals in Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital. She was felicitated and awarded innumerable times by the government of USSR. After retirement from government service in 1975, she took up the post of Professor and Head of the Department of Pediatrics, Christian Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab. She continued in this post till 1987. In her lifetime she had many articles and journals to her credit. She remained a missionary till the very end serving villagers and the poor at no cost and never ever set up a private practice which she could have easily done. She believed that "tears of gratitude" in the eyes of the parents of the healed children was more than adequate compensation. == Personal life == The maiden name of Dr. Sheila Singh Paul was Sheila Therese Martin, born of parents of Jewish descent ( Myers from France ) who migrated to Bihar India in the early 1900s and owned coal mines in Jharia (now in Jharkhand). Before she became a student at Lady Hardinge Medical College, she was a student of IT College Lucknow, Loreto Convent, Asansole. She worked at the Lady Dufferin Hospital in Calcutta and also served in the Indian army in the medical corps. She married Balwant Singh Paul (Lincoln's Inn ) son of Sardar Bahadur Kishan Singh, IG of Police and Kings police medal awardee. She is survived by her daughter Priya Singh Paul 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheila Singh Paul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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