P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Abdullokhujaev, Zaki

Tajik physician and contagious disease specialist Zaki Yaqubovich

Abdullokhujaev was born into a family of builders on February 12,

1929, in Khujand.

Abdullokhujaev graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical In-

stitute Named After Ibn Sina in 1950 and, in 1955, defended his post-

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graduate thesis. From 1955 to 1960, he was an intern and an Assistant

Professor in the Department of Contagious Diseases at the same in-

stitute. In 1965, he defended his dissertation on The Process of Oxidi-

zation and the Establishment and Oxygen Balance in Hepatitis. He

became a physician in 1967, and a professor in 1969. From 1967 to

1968, he was the Acting Director of the Dushanbe Institute of Epide-

meology. In 1968, he became the Director of the Department of Chil-

dren's Contagious Diseases. He also became the Director of the Chil-

dren's Division of the Ministry of Health and Well-being of the

Republic.

Abdullokhujaev has published a noteworthy number of studies in

relation to contagious diseases including Tashkhis u Mu'olijai Bimorii

Botkin dar Bachagon (How to Diagnose and Treat Hepatitis in Chil-

dren, 1970) and Tarzu Usulhoi Mu'olijai Ba'zi Bimorihoi Vaznini

Bachagon (Methods and Principles for Treating Grave Cases of Chil-

dren's Diseases, 1972).