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Title: In the Wars: A story of conflict, survival and saving lives
Author: ARIAN WAHEED
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 16/06/2021
Imprint: BANTAM
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Born in war-torn Afghanistan, Waheed Arian’s earliest memories are of bombs. Fleeing the
conflict with his family, he spent much of his childhood in refugee camps in Pakistan, living
sometimes ten to a room without basic sanitation or access to education. After he
contracted tuberculosis, his first-hand experience of the power of medicine inspired
Waheed to dedicate his life to heaing others. But how does a boy with nothing hope to
become a doctor? Waheed largely taught himself, from textbooks bought from streetsellers, and learned English from the BBC World Service. Smuggled to the UK at fifteen
with just $100 in his pocket, he found a job in a shop. He was advised to set his sights on
becoming a taxi driver. But the boy from Kabul had bigger ambitions. He studied all hours
and was accepted to read medicine at Cambridge University, Imperial College and
Harvard, and went on to become a doctor in the NHS. In 2015 he founded Arian Teleheal,
a pioneering global charity that connects doctors in war zones and low-resource countries
with their counterparts in the US, UK, Europe and Australia. Together, learning from each
other, they save and change lives – the lives of millions of people just like Waheed
ISBN: 9781787633971
Pages: 320