March 13th, 2010
Doodhpatti Blogs
closeAuthor: Doodhpatti Blogs
Name: Imran Akhtar
Email: imran_akhtar80@hotmail.com
Site: http://www.tohfay.com
About: Mehdi Hasnain aka Moon uses pen (or mouse) name medigineers. Medigineers is the name of music band launched by him along with (medical doctors and engineer friends and hence the name ‘medi-gineers) back in 80s while studying in Karachi. These are also the early days that shaped the social media context for him ultimately resulting in what we have today as www.doodhpatti.com. Along the way medigineers (let’s call Mehdi that now) graduated from NED, worked 18 years as a business professional in strategy formulation, operations and project planning, team building and quality assurance after doing MBA in Finance and operations from Scranton, PA held senior leadership positions in manufacturing, automotive, semi-conductor and consumer electronics industries working in North America and Pakistan. He is currently working as Global Quality Director for APC and is commuting between Boston and Karachi.
“Medigineers keeps me connected with my inner creative, communal and entrepreneurial instincts”, says Mehdi and thus culminates in launching projects such as ARRA International (during his early days in Karachi), Advanced Management Group and now Tohfay.com and Doodhpatti.com. Medigineers is a writer, singer and a poet of humorous genre (a pupil of the great Late Dilwar Figaar himself) is often reciting mushairay in North America and Asia. Medigineers is a teacher, a student of finance, economy and human behaviors.
(Mehdi is the CEO of Tohfay Inc and heads the strategy and global expansion plans for all related portals).See Authors Posts (7)
We were sitting at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital’s consulting clinic in Karachi. My sister who was diagnosed with malignant tumor wanted a second opinion and treatment. It was impressive not the waiting area but the banners and pana-flexes around displaying the success stories of Shaukat Khanum hospital. Pictures of patients who were cured by the experts and details of facilities available at one and only cancer hospital of Pakistan.
After sudden diagnoses of cancer to my younger sister, needless to mention that we spoke with, discussed and contacted every doctor we knew or we didn’t know. Talked to family, friends or neighbors studying medicine at Ziauddin to Agha Khan and now at Shaukat Khanum. In search of a miracle though right from the physical examination to the biopsy report of the breast lump, was declared as the malignant one. This was indeed a nightmare for the family and a huge shock for the 28 yrs old newly married girl.
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