Dr. Bashir-Ur Rehman Kant

Dr. Bashir-Ur-Rehman Kant has over 48 years of experience of serving in various capacities in the health, allied government, academic, national, international and government sectors of Azad Jammu & Kashmir-AJ&K. He attained his degree in medicine from King Edward Medical College-Lahore and has received medals in the subjects of Pathology and Pharmacology. Additionally, he is a qualified MCPS & FCPS from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan.

Dr. Kant possesses a vast professional and administrative experience in project management while working with KFW-Health Infrastructure Programme, Asian Development Bank, Multisectoral Health Rehabilitation Project, World Bank Sponsored Primary Health Care Project, and UNFPA reproductive health project. He has also supervised several projects in the post-earthquake scenario, including the Australian Medical Mission, 212 Mobile American Surgical Hospital, South Korean Medical Mission, Cuban Medical Mission, and Canadian Medical Mission.

Dr. Kant has managed high-budget projects of UN-WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, US-AID, MSF & Mercy Corps for providing relief to earthquake affected communities and supporting regular health systems.