Jal R. Patel

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Jal R. Patel
Born(1910-10-21)October 21, 1910
India
OccupationPhysician
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Jal Ratanji Patel was an Indian physician, who attended to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, [1] during the years the latter was being treated for Tuberculosis. [2] Patel, who was born into a Parsi family, [3] 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, [4] and that Patel kept his patient's condition a secret on the patient's advice. [5] The Government of India awarded Patel Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award, in 1962. [6]

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