A Canadian surgeon, Dr. Ahmad Ashrafi, led a team of healthcare professionals to Afghanistan to provide education and training to local healthcare workers.
A Surrey Memorial Hospital surgeon led a team of health-care workers on a mission to Afghanistan in October to help educate health-care workers in the nation’s capital. Afghanistan is considered a very difficult place to go to because it's been in war for over four decades, said Dr. Ahmad Ashrafi, the regional division head of thoracic surgery at Surrey Memorial Hospital. As a result, many essential services have been impacted, including health care.
I've always been interested in global health and global surgery, partly because of my own life journey. I was an immigrant in Canada, and I was born in Afghanistan, Ashrafi said. He left with his family in 1983. Several years ago, a friend invited him on a medical humanitarian trip to start a thoracic surgery program at the National Cancer Centre in Mongolia. Over the years, Ashrafi returned several times with a team to help the hospital establish a program to improve their skills in minimally invasive surgery. In 2023, Ashrafi was invited to Uzbekistan. Once again, the goal was really to establish a program and share the knowledge and experience and expertise that we have in Canada with them, Ashrafi said.The goal is never medical tourism or going there and performing procedures. My interest is always to build a sustainable program and help colleagues around the world benefit from the types of surgery that we perform here. A childhood friend from Afghanistan asked Ashrafi if he could come and set up a similar program there. Surgical, critical care teams travel to Kabul In March 2024, he travelled to Afghanistan and visited the Ali Abad Teaching Hospital in the capital, Kabul, to get a feel for the situation there. He found the doctors and nurses were'very keen' to have a team from Canada come and share their medical knowledge. Ashrafi returned to Canada to set up the team, which ended up consisting of anesthesiologist Dr
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