.DrWaheedArian from sathnhs is the latest guest on BBCRadio4's Desert Island Discs. Hear his fascinating life story as Afghan refugee, doctor and charity founder - and find out the eight songs he'd take to the island! Listen on BBCSounds
Dr Waheed Arian, radiologist and charity founder, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.Dr Waheed Arian is a radiologist who set up a charity called Arian Teleheal in 2015. The charity enables volunteer doctors in the west to advise colleagues in conflict zones using smartphone technology. The charity has helped save many lives in countries including Syria, Uganda and Afghanistan where Waheed was born.
In 1988, at the height of the Soviet-Afghan conflict, Waheed and his family fled Kabul for Pakistan where they lived in a refugee camp for the next few years. Waheed was just five when they arrived there and contracted tuberculosis. The doctor who saved his life planted a dream and Waheed decided that one day he would study medicine.
When he was 15 Afghanistan was in the grip of the Taliban and Waheed and his parents knew it was only a matter of time before he would be recruited to join their fight. Waheed's family found someone who, for a fee, offered to help him leave the country and claim refugee status in the UK. He arrived in the UK in 1999, studied A levels while working in a number of jobs and then in 2003 took up a place to read medicine at Cambridge University.
In 2014 he began training as a radiologist and currently works in the A&E department at a busy NHS hospital. In 2017 he won a UN Global Hero Award for his charity work.DISC THREE: Eye of the Tiger by SurvivorDISC SIX: Fly by Celine DionBOOK CHOICE: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba
Danmark Seneste Nyt, Danmark Overskrifter
Similar News:Du kan også læse nyheder, der ligner denne, som vi har indsamlet fra andre nyhedskilder.
BBC Radio 2 listeners baffled by Steve Wright replacementMonday's show raised questions
Læs mere »
Edenfield Centre: Care watchdog praised bosses at abuse hospitalInspectors also endorsed staff 'values' at a time when the BBC was filming patients being mistreated.
Læs mere »
Four women to run post office and count penguins in AntarcticaThe team will also monitor a colony of gentoo penguins on Goudier Island for five months.
Læs mere »