Rubina Gillani is a Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist from the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

Province. She trained as a general practitioner and worked for the

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for six years. Gillani was the

Fred Hollows Foundation The Fred Hollows Foundation is a non-profit aid organisation based in Sydney, Australia, which was founded in 1992 by eye surgeon Fred Hollows. The foundation focuses on treating and preventing blindness and other vision problems. It opera ...

's Country Manager in

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since 1998, but left it in 2014. As Country Manager, she did managerial work but still sees herself as a 'field worker'. The Foundation has been working with local blindness prevention agencies in Pakistan since 1997, such as The Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology and the Khyber Eye Foundation. In 1998 Gillani undertook a situational analysis w i to determine the prevalence of blindness in Pakistan. She spoke at The Foundation's IMG meeting in October 2003 in Sydney, Australia on the importance of sustainability and The Foundation's role as a development organisation. In 2006 she met Australian Prime Minister

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in Canberra resulting in the Australian Government’s decision to fund the eye program in Pakistan for a further 5 years. In 2009, the Australian Federal Government announced more than $5-million in extra funding for the Foundation’s program in Pakistan that is restoring the sight of thousands of people in remote areas. In February 2012, Gillani visited the Ophthalmology Department of the

Khyber Teaching Hospital Khyber Teaching Hospital ( ur, , ps, د خیبر تدريسي روغتون, abbreviated as KTH), is a university hospital and the primary teaching affiliate of Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan. KTH lies on the historic route that ...

and handed over equipment worth Rs 5 million to the hospital.The News February 25, 2012
/ref> From 2015 to 2018 she served on the Board of Governors of the Hayatabad Medical Complex,

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

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