Jai Pal Singh (13 May 1930 – 24 September 1997) was an Indian physician and educator.
Singh obtained his bachelor’s medical degree in 1962 with a distinguished academic record from the third oldest medical college in India Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra, India - the same institute from where his father (Late Dr.
Yogendra Singh, a doctor with the British Army) graduated a generation ago.
Active in sports and theater for the University of Agra, he was also an outstanding scholar and was at the top of his Bachelors and Masters examinations.
After completing his post-graduate qualifications in Surgery in 1955 with outstanding honors, he worked for over 40 years in Delhi and its neighbouring regions.
He was felicitated by his college as an Outstanding Alumni along with other prominent doctors in Delhi in 1988.
During his medical career spanning four decades, Dr Singh visited the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth Fellow in 1968 at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street London; traveled to United States on a WHO Fellowship to study Accident and Emergency Services; was invited to the General Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Melbourne in 1984; read scientific papers at the International Cancer Congress in Seattle US, 1982 and in 1983 at the Second European Cancer Congress at Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and was invited to Islamabad in 1989 by the Society of Surgeons of Pakistan.
His last official position was as Director of what was then Rohtak Medical College & Hospital in Haryana and is now Pt.
B.
D.
Sharma PGIMS Rohtak the only tertiary care and medical teaching facility in the state of Haryana.