Dr Punam Krishan Wikipedia, Age, Husband, Parents, Family, Height, Birth Story, Ethnicity, Strictly
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Dr Punam Krishan Biography – Dr Punam Krishan Wiki
Dr Punam Krishan is an NHS GP in Glasgow with a specialist interest in public health, family, preventative and lifestyle medicine. She is also a writer and TV presenter. The Scottish GP is a resident GP on BBC Morning Live and BBC Radio Scotland’s Phone In Surgery.
Alongside being a practising NHS GP, Punam regularly reports on health news as a broadcaster on TV, radio and national newspapers. During the pandemic, she wrote a weekly column for the Glasgow Times sharing health news and insights from the frontline. She has also written her own children’s book with additional books in the pipeline.
Dr Punam Krishan Age
Dr Punam Krishan was born on 28 May 1983 in Glasgow, Scotland. She is 41 years old.
Dr Punam Krishan Parents
Dr Punam Krishan’s parents were born in India. They moved from Punjab to Scotland in the late 1970s. Her mother had an arranged marriage. She was going to study medicine in India but couldn’t because she came to Scotland to be married. Her father owned a corner shop in Glasgow.
Dr Punam Krishan Husband
Dr Punam Krishan is married to Dr Sandesh Gulhane, a fellow GP. “He started off as an orthopaedic surgeon, but you can’t live with me and not become a GP,” she told The Herald.
Dr Punam Krishan Children
Dr Punam Krishan and her husband, Dr Sandesh Gulhane, have two children, a son Aarish, 11, and a daughter Ellora, 4. She suffered a postpartum haemorrhage following the birth of her son and ended up on a ventilator in intensive care. “I went into heart and lung failure, developed clotting issues and widespread sepsis,” Dr Krishan explained.
Dr Punam Krishan Family
Dr Punam Krishan is the eldest of two daughters. Her sister went to the University of Glasgow to study medicine. She is also a GP in Glasgow.
Dr Punam Krishan Strictly Come Dancing
Dr Punam Krishan was the fifth celebrity contestant confirmed for Strictly Come Dancing 2024. The news was revealed on Vernon Kay’s Radio 2 show. Vernon is married to Strictly host Tess Daly.
Punam said: “This still doesn’t feel real, I am overjoyed to be a contestant on this year’s show. I have watched Strictly every year with my family and it feels extra special that it’s the 20th year, I can’t believe I will be the one getting Strictly-fied now. This is so out of my comfort zone, but I’m up for the journey and will give it my absolute all.”
The other celebrity contestants taking part in the BBC series include Chris McCausland, JB Gill, Wynne Evans, Toyah Willcox, Tasha Ghouri, Pete Wicks, Shayne Ward, Sarah Hadland, Jamie Borthwick, Tom Dean MBE and Montell Douglas aka Fire.
The Scottish GP has said she is going to ask for advice from her Morning Live co-stars Kym Marsh, Kimberley Walsh and Helen Skelton, who previously took part in the BBC competition.
GP Practice
Strictly star Dr Punam Krishan set the record straight about her role as a GP in Glasgow ahead of her stint on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. The TV presenter took to the social media platform where she shared an image of her NHS colleagues. She wrote: “When you’re surrounded by the best people, you can achieve anything.
“I’ve had some people ask me whether I’ll be leaving my NHS GP work to do strictly. Absolutely not. It will be a challenge to balance it but I’m so lucky to be supported by the most fantastic team and, as my practice manager put it, “we will make it work!”
“I love my job. My patients and my duty of care towards them will always come first. However, I’m also someone who has passions, dreams and aspirations outside of my day job. Strictly is a proper dream come true for me. I’m a fan and my practice team are mega fans so they are fully behind me for which I’m so grateful.
“Today, after a long day at work and after the practice had closed, they stayed back to help me with some filming. They didn’t need to do that but they did. It’s hard to find people who would do that. So here’s a pic of my incredible Practice Manager, Janie, and my go to for every job in and out of work, John! The rest of the clan had left before I could get a pic. Properly lucked out with these guys! #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #teamnhs #nhsgp.” (sic)
Dr Punam Krishan Height
Strictly star Dr Punam Krishan stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (5’9″/1.75 m).
Dr Punam Krishan Nationality
Dr Punam Krishan is of Scottish nationality. In 2019, the Glasgow-born GP shared details of an exchange between a patient and receptionist addressing the reality of life as a Scottish GP. The brief transcript, which Dr Krishan posted on X, formerly Twitter, read: “Patient: ‘I don’t want an Asian doctor.’ Receptionist: ‘She is Scottish.’ Patient: ‘She doesn’t look Scottish.’ Receptionist: ‘What do Scottish people look like?’ Silence. Appointment card taken. So proud of my team.”
The tweet went viral and Dr Krishan received messages from as far afield as Argentina, Colombia, Ghana, India, Canada and Australia.
Dr Punam Krishan Ethnicity
Glasgow-born Dr Punam Krishan is of Indian descent and Asian ethnicity.
Dr Punam Krishan Birth Story
Dr Punam Krishan is a survivor of birth trauma. She told her birth story in an article titled “I almost died during my first pregnancy – then I was expected to just carry on as normal.” She wrote: “When I fell pregnant seven years ago, having enjoyed good health to that point, I had no reason to believe that my birth experience was going to be anything less than perfect. I had joined local pregnancy yoga and antenatal classes and was swept away. Engrossed and excited by the anecdotal story-telling, I allowed myself to forget the science. We were encouraged to step away from all medical interventions because our ‘bodies are designed and empowered to give birth naturally’.”
She added: “I remember proudly presenting my empty birth plan to my midwife after my nine month antenatal training. All the mums in my classes had either claimed to go through the perfect birth experience or were prepared for it. My mindset had become – if they could do it, so can I.
“I quickly learned though that I couldn’t do it. Complication after complication – all outside my control – landed me in intensive care with multi-organ failure. I woke up five days later to find a body that didn’t look or feel like mine, to meet a baby who I couldn’t hold or connect with and accept what everyone else was dictating to me. I felt helpless, hopeless and most of all, I felt like a failure. “How could they all do it but I couldn’t?” I thought.
“It took me a year to physically recover but it’s taken six years and a second pregnancy now for me to accept and recognise that I haven’t dealt with the emotional and psychological effects of that trauma. Nobody spoke about it so I just got on with it. I live in gratitude for my beautiful son but that experience haunts me.”
Dr Punam Krishan’s Instagram handle is drpunamkrishan.
