Name Miguel Dias | Died July 26, 1936 | |
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Miguel Caetano Dias (9 July 1854 – 26 July 1936) was a Goan medical doctor.
Dias began his medical career in Goa in 1888; before that he worked in Mozambique for five years. In the same year he was promoted to the rank of major and then to lieutenant colonel. He was appointed chief of health services and director of Escola Medico e Cirurgiao de Goa (Goa Medical School) in 1906. Dias opposed the proposed move of shutting down the college and also expressed regret over the attitude of the Government, this finally led systematic changes being brought in the curriculum over 1913 to 1919. He was honored as "General" by Government of Portugal, being the first and the only Goan to be so honoured in Portuguese Medical Corps.
He had many honors bestowed upon him by the colonial Portuguese government, including Cavaleiro, Official and Comendador da Real Ordem de S. Bento de Aviz. From the Queen of Portugal, D. Amelia, he received a silver medal for his work in India, and achieved renown for his work in 1908 in exterminating the bubonic plague in Panaji. He became the mayor of the Panjim Municipality and president of the first Provincial Congress of Goa.
His great-grandson, Dr Luis Dias, is currently based in Maidstone, UK.