A patient named Abdirahman Nur with gun shot wound was brought into our emergency department on November 4, 2018, due to excessive blood loss and trauma the patient was taken to emergency operation. The patient had a lower abdominal wound and was operated by a team led by general surgery specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kemal ARSLAN and a cardiovascular surgery resident Dr. Abdinafic Mohamud HUSSEIN. The patient's fragmented right groin main artery was repaired with an artifical vein, in Somalia, an operation only performed in our hospital. While the patient was on his way to our hospital serious blood loss occured, therefore liver and kidney failure developed, as the result of the treatment performed at our intensive care unit by anesthesia, internal medicine and infection department, liver and kidney failure were successfully treated.
After this process, the patient wanted to spend his recovery and rehabilitation in England, where he stayed permanently, and was discharged when we found it medically appropriate. The patient sent us a video and shared with us his happiness of the success of his treatment and his new first steps, and the patient thanked Turkey for providing such a capable hospital to Somali people and Turkish people and all hospital personnel.
As Mogadishu Somalia-Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research hospital we wish this patient and all other patients in our hospital good health.