Jai Pal Singh | |
Office: | Director, Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Rohtak, Haryana and Principal Medical College, Haryana. India. |
Term Start: | 1989 |
Term End: | 1992 |
Office2: | Medical Superintendent, Dr. RML Hospital, (formerly The Willingdon Hospital), Delhi, India. |
Term Start2: | 1986 |
Term End2: | 1989 |
Office3: | Professor and Head of Department of Surgery at University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, India. |
Term Start3: | 1980 |
Term End3: | 1986 |
Birth Date: | 13 May 1930 |
Birth Place: | Mhow, Meerut (UP) |
Death Place: | Delhi, India |
Alma Mater: | Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra |
Profession: | Doctor Professor |
Jai Pal Singh (13 May 1930 – 24 September 1997) was an Indian physician and educator. Singh obtained his bachelor’s medical degree in 1962 Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra, India - the same institute from where his father (Yogendra Singh, a doctor with the British Army) graduated a generation ago. After completing his post-graduate qualifications in Surgery in 1955, he worked for over 40 years in Delhi and its neighbouring regions.
His last official position was as Director of what was then Rohtak Medical College & Hospital in Haryana and is now Pt. B. D. Sharma PGIMS Rohtak the only tertiary care and medical teaching facility in the state of Haryana.
Singh earned recognition for his work in surgery and was appointed as Honorary Surgeon to two Presidents of India and was honored by President of India Padma Shri by in 1991.[1]
Recipient of the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Award[2] in 1986 for the best piece of Surgical Research on "Newer Aetriopathologoical aspects of Urinary Calculi and means of preventing their recurrence".