Dr. Syed Ibrahim, after his post graduation in Institute of Child health, Chennai. (Egmore children hospital), become a member of the Royal college of physician, MRCP, (Paed), UK and was working in paediatric and neonatology unit, Royal Children Hospital, UK, King Khalid Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and at Newborn, children division of Pushpalatha Maternity Hospital, Tirunelveli.
For the last 13 years, he is the director of Royal Hospital and Head - Neonatology and paediatric division in Royal Hospital, NGO ‘A’ Colony, Tirunelveli.
The neonatology and paediatric unit is an advanced tertiary care centre to take care of all neonatal and paediatric emergencies from Tirunelveli district and from the nearby districts. The neonatal.and pediatric mortality is very low like in advanced countries.
The unit cares around 100 sick newborns and 250 sick paediatric patient per month. He is a teaching faculty for the neonatal fellowship programme at Royal Hospital under the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical university. Chief editor of the magazine ‘CME’, published from Royal Hospital.