Hakeem Mohd Iqbal Sheikh, A renowned homeopathic medical practitioner in Bunjwah

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SHAFQAT SHEIKH

KISHTWAR AUGUST 09:–For decades the Bunjwah region is known for its hospitality and for serving humanity without any discrimination of caste creed color or religion resulting in the production of various fertile brains and intellectual personalities.

Among all one of the most famous personalities and homeopathic medical practitioners Mohd Iqbal Sheikh was born in 1961 in a small hamlet Toyibabad Nali of the Bunjwah region in the Kishtwar district with a multi-talented brain.

With a qualification of middle standard from a Government institution in 1975 and was appointed/engaged in Social Forestry Department as a Casual Labourer cum helper in the department. Having skills and a nature-loving mind, Mr. Sheikh prepared and invented various medicines from forest produces and started serving society earlier in his childhood, without any discrimination among the communities and without any charges.

The family background was also good and the father of Mohd Iqbal Sheikh was serving the society also from his childhood. During his service in Social Forestry Department, Mr. Sheikh planted various types of saplings of different kinds of species in the erstwhile Doda District and various parts of the Kishtwar region.

In 2013 Mr. Sheikh applied for voluntary retirement from the department and after that started collecting raw materials from various corners of Jammu and Kashmir for the production and invention of homeopathic medicine for caring for various ailments except for death and old age. Self-made medicine is prepared by way of grinding and mixing by way of centuries-old techniques.

From the hand of Mohd Iqbal Sheikh, various patients are cured who had left no stone unturned and visited various institutions for caring of their ailments.

The services of Mohd Iqbal Sheikh are remarkable and historical which are being served from his childhood and never be forgotten.

( The author is Freelancer Writer and Columnist from Bunjwah Kishtwar and can be reached at freelancershafqat@gmail.com 9419974577 )