Sultan Ahmed Cheema (1908–1990) was among the few doctors living in Pakistan after its

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in 1947. He served at various divisional and district hospitals simultaneously because of the acute shortage of doctors at that time. During the latter part of his career, he established the Cheema Hospital in

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which became very famous in the field of

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. Patients came from

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for treatment. For his services, he was decorated with the civil medal of

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by the President of Pakistan. Cheema was also the President of the Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan. Cheema was also a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.Provincial Assembly of West Pakistan
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheema, Sultan Ahmed 1908 births 1990 deaths Pakistani ophthalmologists