“Between us and the pain there is a small distance, and between us and the patient there is mercy.” This is a principle pursued by the Algerian surgeon Professor Abdelhamid Ait Ben Omar, who is nicknamed “the conqueror of cancer” in his profession. healing.
For more than 40 years, this surgeon comforted his patients and reassured their families. He says that “in the end, there is a fine line between illness and death from malignant tumors called dedication to work and giving hope to patients for recovery,” stressing that he insists on quelling their pain and quelling a little of their pain.
The people’s trust in this surgeon was gained from his simple surroundings and from the groaning of patients, as he faces the disease in government hospitals and relaxes his hands for everyone who catches them, despite the offers that fell on him by private clinics.
Good reputation
“The conqueror of cancer” is a title that has become attached to Ait Ben Omar, as he is one of the pillars of health in Algeria. He worked as a general practitioner and then as a surgeon for 4 decades, as well as giving lectures to medical students in Algeria and participating in national and international conferences, moving between the corridors of government hospitals. On the other hand, he refused administrative responsibilities.
He is also one of dozens of surgeons who enjoy a good reputation among patients and medical staff as a result of their dedication to work and the revival of life in the hearts of patients despite their pain.
One of the most famous stories
Ait Ben Omar is a surgeon specializing in oncological surgery who worked in a government hospital in Algiers. His story is one of the most popular stories on social media, as this surgeon spends almost every day in the hospital performing complex surgeries that can last up to 16 hours.
He comes to his workplace every day during the break of dawn to be in the treatment room at four o’clock in the morning and leaves around ten o’clock at night every day of the week, even on holidays, according to those close to him.
consoling the weak
Despite his experience and being considered the best surgeon in Algeria, he refused to give in to the offers he received over the years from private clinics and clinics specializing in oncology, considering his true profession to console the weak who cannot pay money for treatment. This made his popularity rise among his patients and various groups of society, who saved them from the tumors they were suffering from, or who stood by their side in the ordeal of the disease, and the testimonies of his patients against him are many.
Like other doctors in Algeria, he enjoys unparalleled popularity, some of whom have been dubbed “the lover of the poor”, and some of them are known as “the son of the people’s children.” Many of them preferred to stay in Algeria, while thousands of health professionals left.
In Algeria, there are several competencies in the field of medicine, such as Professor Mustapha Ben Yahia, President of the Danish Foot Surgery Association, in addition to Professor Hakim Djaballah, former Director of the Pasteur Institute in South Korea, who provided useful explanations and analyzes about the Corona virus on the largest international television channels and radio stations, and Dr. Kamal Sanhaji, discoverer of AIDS medicine in America, and others.