About Dr. Karnail Singh

Dr Karnail Singh was born in Amritsar in 1939. He moved as a young boy to UK in 1948. The eldest of nine brothers and two sisters, he was bought up in a socially and economically disadvantaged area of Manchester in the North West of England where he initially worked alongside his father, like many first generation Sikhs in Britain, as a peddler. Despite barriers of language and racial prejudice, he succeeded against all odds in achieving several University degrees in science, philosophy, surgery and medicine before graduating as a Doctor in the 70's. He eventually settled as a single handed General Practitioner with his own surgery in Birkenhead where he still lives with his family.