They were going to be doctors. Instead, they had to dodge bombs and flee war
NPRThey were going to be doctors. "We woke up from bombs being dropped on the military base two blocks away," says Ali, adding that his medical school and many hospitals were also bombed. As people in Sudan continue to suffer the effects of what is sometimes described as a " forgotten war," the ongoing disruption of medical education is often overlooked. "Medical education is one of those forgotten parts of the humanitarian crisis," says Dr. Mazin Khalid, interventional cardiologist in the U.S. and director of career development at the Sudanese American Physicians Association, who worries about the future of healthcare in his home country. "There is no doubt that Sudan's healthcare workforce is in danger," says Iraqi, the Sudanese medical intern living in Saudi Arabia.
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