Dr Abdul Ghaffar Billoo’s name is not unknown in Karachi. He is a well reputed doctor in the field of paediatric endocrinology and has been an integral part of the Agha Khan University for a mentionable time period. He has been awarded the most prestigious award of Pakistan, the Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his public services which was handed over to him by the then president of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf.
Dr Abdul Ghaffar received his MBBS degree from Dow Medical College in 1959 and he received his diploma in child health, tropical medicine and hygiene from the United Kingdom in 1962. He passed his MRCP exam in 1964 and was selected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1986. Dr Abdul Ghaffar belongs to a Memon family and was still undergoing his secondary education at the partition of the sub-continent, after which his family migrated to Pakistan from India.
Dr Abdul Ghaffar’s professional experience is spread around his services at the Jinnah post graduate medical centre, tropical medicine and hygiene in Glasgow and Sea field Sick Children Hospital Ayrshire; Scotland, he then returned to his hometown and joined Agha Khan University Hospital as the chairman of department of paediatrics. He established ‘HANDS’ as a non-profit organization in Pakistan which has been working since 1975.