Islands doctor back from Baghdad
Posted: Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
A surgeon who has spent more than two years working in an Iraqi hospital is in London preparing to return to his job in Orkney.
Dr Ameir Al-Mukhtar left his post as a consultant surgeon with the islands' NHS trust to return to his homeland.
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As a personal friend of Mr. Mukhtar's, I hope the powers-that-be as well as his patients realize what a remarkable man they will have when he returns to Orkney. He is the most dedicated individual I know, to his patients, and to his Country. He has suffered greatly in Iraq without his family, the freedom to take an afternoon drive, the death of friends and family, and the beurocratic ties and delays that have often thwarted his efforts to improve medicine and medical care as a whole in Iraq. And he wasn't a hospital director who sat on the sidelines; he was involved in surgery and patient care daily. Returning to Orkney will be a balm to his spirit, his soul, and his body. It will also be a 360 degree turnaround from the past 2.5 years where he ran one of the largest medical complexes in the East and lived in fear daily. I hope you welcome this kind, gentle man back to Orkney with a smile and a kind word.
Colleen from Florida, USA
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