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About Jal R. Patel
- Jal Ratanji Patel was an Indian physician, who attended to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, during the years the latter was being treated for cancer.
- Patel, who was born into a Parsi family, kept Jinnah's disease a secret which had impact on the Partition of India.
- In his book Freedom at Midnight, Dominique Lapierre claimed that Patel had handed over a confidential file pertaining to Jinnah, and that Patel kept his patient's condition a secret on the patient's advice.
- The Government of India awarded Patel Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award, in 1962.
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