Ahmadi Doctors and the Need for True Sacrifice
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V(aba) delivered an address at the concluding session of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Medical Association UK Annual Conference 2019, held at the Masroor Hall at Islamabad, Tilford, UK on Saturday 30th November 2019. The official transcript of the address delivered by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V(aba) on this occasion is presented below.
After reciting Tashahhud, Ta’awwuz and Bismillah, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V(aba) said: ‘With the grace of Allah, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Medical Association UK is once again holding its annual conference and it is clear that various beneficial projects and endeavours have taken place during the past year. As your report depicts, you have provided some training to our doctors serving in the gynaecology department in Rabwah and at the Tahir Heart Institute. You have also provided medical equipment for the operation theatre at the Fazl-e-Umar hospital and a lithotripsy machine used for breaking down kidney stones. Similarly, either through the Medical Association or through Humanity First, 36 Ahmadi doctors from the UK have travelled abroad for Waqf-e-Arzi and served in countries such as Pakistan, Malaysia, Guatemala, Ghana and The Gambia. A few years ago, the Medical Association also initiated a project to build a hospital in Ivory Coast, but the costs involved were beyond your scope and so Humanity First has now taken over this project. It is not that the medical association handed over this project to Humanity First, rather it was beyond your capacity. This is why it has been taken from the Medical Association and given to Humanity First.
Nonetheless, even though the hospital is no longer being built by the Medical Association, you should continue to discharge your responsibility by contributing as much as possible towards this project. Furthermore, at your last conference, I instructed you to liaise with the Waqf-e-Nau Department and to make a plan to encourage Waqifeen-e-Nau to enter medicine and to guide and assist medical doctors or students from within the Waqf-e-Nau scheme. I instructed that you should provide them with career guidance and advise them about which specialisations they should pursue according to the needs of the Jamaat. I also instructed that you impress upon them the great importance of fulfilling the sacred pledge they had made to dedicate their lives for the service of the Jamaat, as soon as they had the necessary training and experience. Sadly, very little progress has been made in this regard and as a result, we are facing a shortage of doctors at our hospitals. For example, at the Fazl-e-Umar Hospital in Rabwah, the lack of paediatricians has meant that we often have no choice but to refer cases to other hospitals. Similarly, we are facing a shortage of gynaecologists. In light of this, it is very important that paediatricians and gynaecologists from the UK, as well as other specialists,
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