Top African-British Surgeons Died At The Frontlines Battling COVID-19 in UK
April 4, 2020(SSNN) — While standing as the eighth country with the most confirmed number of cases so far, the United Kingdom has registered at least 4, 313 death out of 41, 903 confirmed cases. Among the deads are the three senior African-British surgeons Dr. Adil El Tayar, Dr. Alfa Saadi and Dr. Amged El Hawrani.
According to a story that was reported today by Sirin Kale for BBC, the two Sudanese-British Surgeons, Dr. Adil and Dr. Amged might never have known one another despite the significant impacts they had in NHS in UK.
“The two men did not know each other, probably their paths never crossed, but in death they would find a strange symmetry. Dr Amged El-Hawrani and Dr Adil El Tayar – two British-Sudanese doctors – became the first working medics to die of coronavirus in the UK;
“Their families don’t want them to be remembered in this way – but rather as family men, who loved medicine, helping their community, and their heritage;
“Like the many men and women who come from overseas to join the NHS, El-Hawrani, 55, and El Tayar, 64, left behind friends and relatives back home to dedicate their careers to the UK’s health service. They married and had children – El-Hawrani settling in Burton-Upon-Trent; El Tayar in Isleworth, London. And they became pillars of their communities, while maintaining ties to the country of their birth, the Sudan that both men loved;
“Their stories are illustrative of the many foreign-born medics who even now are battling Covid-19”
Dr. Adil El Tayar and colleagues at COVID-19 frontline(Photo credit: El-Tayar family)
Born in Atbara Sudan, Dr. Adil El Tayar who died at the age of 63, was an organ transplant specialist.
Dr. Adil has spent most of his last days working in A & E department.
According to his family, he left behind two children at the frontline fighting the Coronavirus as NHS doctors in the UK.
Dr. Alfa Saadi, who was born in Nigeria, has passed on at the age of 68. Alfa has worked as a medics for more than 40 years and taught medicine both in the UK and Africa.
Dr. Alfa retired in 2016 at the top of his career as the Director of Alexandra Hospital NHS trust only to be called back to help as Coronavirus takes over the United Kingdom.
The other Sudan-British surgeon, Dr. Amged El Hawrani died at the age of 55 year old.
Dr. Amged was a Consultant, Ear, Nose and Throat trainer at Queens Hospital Burton where he is believed to have trained many doctors throughout his career.
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