In Washington, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby extended “deepest sympathies” to Sulieman’s family. Fellow doctors at Khartoum’s Soba Hospital, where he had worked, were unable to save him. The band of men surrounded him before he could leave. He would help organize and drive medicine and supplies to Sudan’s countryside, arrange rural training for midwives and help bring in cardiologists to perform surgeries for free. In Sudan, Sulieman directed the medical faculty at the University of Khartoum and was a founder and director of a doctors’ humanitarian group, the Sudanese American Medical Association. Colleagues considered him a powerhouse doctor and humanitarian, an upbeat man with an infectious laugh who populated his texts with smiley faces and cats wearing sunglasses. “His love for his patients was over the top,” the nurse said. He traveled back to Sudan several times a year with medical supplies he had collected for that country, colleagues said.Ī nurse at the Iowa City clinic who declined to be identified because the nurse was not authorized to speak called him one of the best. He was a well-respected colleague at the Gastroenterology Clinic and Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, hospital president Tom Clancy said. The morning that Sulieman decided he had to risk the dangerous escape from Sudan’s capital with his parents, American wife and his two American children was the morning that the war found Sulieman, friends say. ”And in God let the believers put their trust.”

“Say, ‘Nothing will happen to us except what God has decreed for us,’” Sulieman, a U.S.-born gastroenterologist who divided his time and work between Iowa City, Iowa, and Khartoum, said in one of his last messages to worried friends on Facebook last week, as fighting persisted. Gunfire between the two factions battling for control resounded in the streets. He and other doctors ventured out as explosions shook the walls of homes where Khartoum’s people cowered inside. WASHINGTON (AP) - Bound to Sudan by ailing parents and his devotion to treating the poor there, American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman kept working as long as he could after fighting engulfed Sudan’s capital.įor days after battles between two rival Sudanese commanders erupted in Khartoum on April 15, the 49-year-old Sulieman treated the city’s wounded.

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