The first female doctor was Zulfiya Umidova

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The first female doctor was Zulfiya Umidova

Zulfiya Ibragimovna was born in 1897 in the city of Tashkent in the family of a military officer. In the year of the October Revolution, she began studying at the Petrograd Women's Medical Institute, but it is not known how she moved to St. Petersburg. In 1918-1920, he worked in the evacuation hospital of the Red Army in Tashkent.

In 1922, Zulfiya Umidova graduated from the medical faculty of the Central Asian State University (now UzMU) and entered the Tashkent Medical Institute. Promoted from assistant to doctor of medical sciences.

Zulfia was one of the first to study the spread of cardiovascular diseases in Uzbekistan SSR (https://www.facebook.com/nemolchi.uz/photos/a.2330378960519842/3877308639160192). In his doctoral dissertation, the scientist studied the effects of the hot climate of Tashkent on the human cardiovascular system and the features of the myocardial infarction clinic.

During his scientific career, the doctor wrote 80 articles, supervised 32 candidate and 3 doctoral theses.

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