عبد الله عمر أبوشمة (أول أخضائيي طب المجتمع)
Abdullah Omar Abu Shamma: Pioneer of Public Health in Sudan
Dr. Abdullah Omar Abu Shamma graduated from Kitchener
Medical School on January 1, 1933, as part of the fifth batch of graduates
which included: Hadi Al-Nugr, Ahmed Bukhari, Abdul Aziz Muhammad Ahmed,
Muhammad Ahmed Ali, Bashir Abdul Rahim, Zaki Mustafa, Abdul Halim Muhammad, and
Muhammad Hassan.
Dr. Abu Shama was the first Sudanese doctor to work in areas
south of Kosti in the year 1934. He was promoted to the position of medical
inspector in 1940, a position rarely held by a Sudanese at that tim. In 1941 he
held the position of assistant medical inspector for the health of Khartoum.
In the year 1948, he was sent to Britain to specialize in
public health, and he received a DPH degree in 1951, making him the first
Sudanese to obtain this degree, after which he became an inspector for
Khartoum's health. After that, Dr. Abu Shamma was transferred to the Blue Nile
to serve as the area health inspector in the year 1953, replacing the British
doctor there. During his time in the Blue Nile and the irrigated Gezira region,
Dr. Abu Shamma planned a project to eradicate schistosomiasis-carrying snails
from the Gezira project. He also introduced the services of mobile units to
treat (leprosy), which became a public policy in Sudan.
In 1954, Dr. Abu Shamma was transferred to Khartoum to be an
assistant to the director of hospitals and a few months later to become deputy
director at the Ministry of Health until 1962 and then director of the ministry.
Dr. Abu Shamma was known in the departments of the World
Health Organization, and he was a member of its specialized committees, then he
became deputy chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization,
and it was said that he was known to health politicians in more than 120
countries at the time.
رائد الصحة العامة
ولد الدكتور عبد الله عمر أبو شمة في 1908 وتخرج في مدرسة كتشنر الطبية في 1933. كان دكتور أبوشمة اول طبيب سوداني يعمل جنوب كوستي في العام 1934. كان أول سوداني ينال في العام 1951 درجة التخصص في الصحة العامة ليصبح بعدها مفتشاً لصحة الخرطوم.
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