P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Yaqubova, Munira

Tajik pediatrician Munira Yaqubova was born on July 1, 1932, in

Bukhara.

Yaqubova graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1956,

then continued her studies in the children's wards of the same institute.

From 1958 to 1963, she was first Associate Director, and later Director

of the Dushanbe Children's Hospital No. 2. In 1963, she became the

Head of the Department of Pediatrics of the Medical Institute. She be-

came a doctor in 1972, and a professor in the same year.

Yaqubova has written extensively on children's diseases and super-

vised such journals as Tandurusti (Health) and Pediatria (Pediatrics).

Yaqubova's contributions include Osnovnie Kliniko-rentgenologicheskie

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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metodi diagnostiki kholetsistitov u detei, (Diagnosis and Treatment of

Kidney Disease in Children, Dushanbe, 1966).