The Government of Pakistan awarded Dr. Sikander Hayat Khan with ‘Tamgha-e-Imtiaz’, a medal in recognition for his outstanding services for providing free medical care to the people of Baltistan.
Dr. Sikander Hayat Khan was trained as a surgeon in the U.K. and after qualifying as an FRCS from London and Edinburgh he worked for the National Health Service in the U.K. for 10 years and then returned to Pakistan and joined the Polyclinic Hospital, Islamabad, as a consultant surgeon. Later on in the 1980s, he joined the then newly built Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) as Head of Surgery and also became a Professor of Surgery. He was an Examiner for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan, President of the Society of Surgeons of Pakistan and was also the Editor of the Journal of Surgery at PIMS.