Obituary Note
Dr CW Vellani, what an exemplary man walked on this planet who taught us how to be human being and only this as a core value of humanity. The two wings of the chancellor of AKU were Cheves Smyth and CW Vellani who laid the academic foundation of this renaissance institution in 1979 now with a history of 40 years of development under the shade of the global impacting AKDN.
Prof. CW Vellani
Dr CW Vellani was primarily a scientist cardiologist par excellence and partnered with Dr Cheves Smyth to build the SON and Aga Khan Hospital Medical College to Aga Khan University at the Stadium Road Campus in Karachi in 1985. We all should be proud to have worked under his shade of care to live a life for the betterment of humanity at large. His patient care model was unique right from Edinburgh to Cardiff to Karachi treating patients without consideration of class, creed and spiritual culture of mankind.
We stand with his family at this moment of separation with tears of gratitude for a role model service to humanity.
HR Ahmad
Rochester MN
hrahmad.alrazi@gmail.com
Tribute to Prof C W Vellani
With the demise of Prof Vallani a golden chapter of clinical Medicine and cardiology has come to an end. He was a great teacher a classic physician and a thorough gentleman. He mentored scores of physicians and remained active until his last years. I had the good fortune of working under his Chair during the formative years of AKUH and thereafter a long association spread over four decades. Low tone soft spoken polite humble and caring Vellani sahib was a great human. I never saw him loose temper or in anger. He was great advocator of clinical medicine. I learned patience dedication and hardworking from him. He can rightly be called the founder of AKUH. His art of teaching management and clinical methods will always be remembered. He was highly disciplined and always spoke brief and to the point.
His legacy is difficult to carry but the impact he had on generations of doctors will remain alive for years to come. Indeed, his death is a great loss to AKUH and medical fraternity of Pakistan. Let us pray for his maghfarat.
Prof. M. Ishaq
khyber50@yahoo.com
