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7 November 2005

Monday, 7 November 2005, 3.11 pm - 4.10 pm.

I received an e-mail from En. Mohd. Fadli Ghani dated 11 September 2005. En. Mohd. Fadli Ghani asked when the intended book will be published. I replied to him it will be a while. En. Fadli Ghani has further information about the Malay doctors and included a list of old Malay books on medicine (see Search 60).

En. Fadli Ghani was reading a book about Tun Dr. Hamdan Sheikh Tahir, ex-VC, USM. He happened to read the father's note about his birth. Sheikh Tahir Jalaluddin noted at the end that Tun Dr. Hamdan was received by Dr. Ariff. So this means when Tun Dr. Hamdan Sheikh Tahir was born on 26 April 1921, there was a Malay doctor named Dr. Ariff.

En. Fadli Ghani provided more names of the early medical students from Kedah. According to him, the file SUK Kedah/K3467/1355 dated 1936 recorded the names of 7 medical students from Kedah in Singapore. They were Che Salma Ismail, Omar Din, Abu Bakar (Datuk Dr.), Hamid Ismail, Hussein Ahmad, Sutan Zaian and a non-Malay, NP Surathee.

A separate file SUK Kedah 3080/57 dated 16 November 1938 recorded another Malay doctor's name, Dr. Mustafa Osman, a government pathologist. Dr. Mustafa is the sibling of Mohd. Shariff Osman (mantan Menteri Besar Kedah), Datuk Shuib Awang Osman (mantan SUK Kedah) and Tan Sri Khalid Awang (Malaysia's Ambassador to Egypt).

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Acknowledgement

En. Mohd. Fadli Ghani

Pengarah Akademi Kajian Kota, Kuala Lumpur

E-mail: fadliayman@yahoo.com

Sheikh Tahir Jalaluddin

Father of Tun Dr. Hamdan Sheikh Tahir

Wrote about Tun Dr. Hamdan's birth

Tun Dr. Hamdan Sheikh Tahir (1922)

Ex-VC

Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang

Dr. Ariff

Attended to Tun Dr. Hamdan Sheikh Tahir's birth in 1922

SUK Kedah for these files:

SUK Kedah/K3467/1355 dated 1936

SUK Kedah 3080/57 dated 16 November 1938

It cannot be ascertained when these doctors graduated:

Che Salma Ismail

Omar Din

Datuk Dr. Abu Bakar (from Search 9)

Hamid Ismail

Hussein Ahmad

Sutan Zaian

NP Surathee

Dr. Mustafa Osman

Dr. Mustafa Osman

Government pathologist

Sibling of Mohd. Shariff Osman (mantan Menteri Besar Kedah), Datuk Shuib Awang Osman (mantan SUK Kedah) and Tan Sri Khalid Awang (Malaysia's Ambassador to Egypt).

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