Head of the cardiology department Sudan Heart Centre, Khartoum, and previously consultant physician Khartoum Teaching Hospital and senior physician Ministry of Health, Sudan (b 1937; q Khartoum 1962; FRCP), died from complications of a perforated gastric ulcer on 22 July 2004.
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After junior hospital posts in Khartoum he spent a year at University College Hospital, London. On his return to Sudan he gained extensive experience in Wau, Kassala, and Port Sudan. He then took up his consultant post at Khartoum Teaching Hospital with teaching responsibilities in the University of Khartoum medical school. To improve and develop medicine in the Sudan, he travelled widely in the Middle East, Europe, and the Indian subcontinent. He leaves a wife, Safia, and four daughters.
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