Dr Diwan Jai CHAND (1887-1961) – PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE présentée par Homeopathyforce.com

President of the Punjab Homoeopathic League at Lahore.

Principal of the National Homoeopathic College in Lahore.

President of the All-India Institute of Homoeopathy, Delhi Branch.

He also founded and edited a journal “Health and Homoeopathy”.

Member of the Homoeopathic Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Health.

         Dr. Diwan Jai Chand was born on 3rd July 1887 in Bhawalpur State (now in West Pakistan) and had his initial medical education at the K.E. Medical College, Lahore. He left for U.K. in 1910 and
returned in 1913 after passing L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.(Edin), L.R.F.P. & S. (Glas), D.P.H. (Edin), D.T.M. (L’pool), L.M: (Dub).

         On return from U.K. he joined service with the Punjab Government as Dy. Sanitary Commissioner in the Public Health Department, one of the first Indian to be appointed to that high post. He
resigned soon after and started a clinic at Lahore in 1915. He soon became converted to Homoeopathy.

         For some time he was the President of the Punjab Homoepathic League at Lahore. He was the founder and Principal of National Homoeopathic College in Lahore in the early twenties. After
independence of the country in 1947, he had to shift to Delhi as a refugee and established his clinic in New Delhi. He was President of the All-India Institute of Homoeopathy, Delhi Branch, for some years. He also founded and edited an excellent journal, “Health and Homoeopathy”.

         In 1952, he was appointed a Member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Homoeopathy, which in 1956 became the Homoeopathic Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Health, Govt. of India, in which he
continued to be a member till his death. He passed away on 14th May 1961.

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