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<p><span>Latest US Census Data Released in 2023</span><br></br><br></br><span><a href="https://data.census.gov/table/ACSSPP1Y2022.S0201?q=S0201:+Selected+Population+Profile+in+the+United+States&t=-02:-04:070:Ancestry:Income+and+Poverty" target="_blank">https://data.census.gov/table/ACSSPP1Y2022.S0201?q=S0201:+Selected+Population+Profile+in+the+United+States&t=-02:-04:070:Ancestry:Income+and+Poverty</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>Pakistani-Americans Median Household Earning: $106,281, Mean Earnings:…</span></p>
<p><span>Latest US Census Data Released in 2023</span><br/><br/><span><a href="https://data.census.gov/table/ACSSPP1Y2022.S0201?q=S0201:+Selected+Population+Profile+in+the+United+States&t=-02:-04:070:Ancestry:Income+and+Poverty" target="_blank">https://data.census.gov/table/ACSSPP1Y2022.S0201?q=S0201:+Selected+Population+Profile+in+the+United+States&t=-02:-04:070:Ancestry:Income+and+Poverty</a></span><br/><br/><span>Pakistani-Americans Median Household Earning: $106,281, Mean Earnings: $149,178</span><br/><br/><span>---------------</span><br/><br/><br/><span>White Americans: Median household Income $78,636 Mean Earnings $112,415</span><br/><br/><span>African Americans : $52,238 $76,888</span><br/><br/><span>American Indian Alaska Native $61,778 $85,838</span><br/><br/><span>Asian Indian $152,341 $197,732</span><br/><br/><span>Bangladeshi $80,288 $116,500</span><br/><br/><span>Chinese $101,738 $160,049</span><br/><br/><span>Taiwanese $122,952 $180,906</span><br/><br/><span>Filipino $109,090 $122,635</span><br/><br/><span>Pakistanis $106,286 $149,178</span><br/><br/><span>Nepal $92,262 $120,146</span><br/><br/><span>Asians $104,646 $149,363</span></p> Dr. Monica Mukherjee (Indian)…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2023-04-14:1119293:Comment:4228482023-04-14T17:13:27.987ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Dr. Monica Mukherjee (Indian) and Dr. Farzad Najam (Pakistani) doctors did emergency surgery on Richard Holbrooke (Obama's Special Rep for Afghanistan and Pakistan) at George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC. Here's an except from George Packer's biography of Holbrooke:<br></br><br></br>Hillary Clinton’s doctor, Jehan El-Bayoumi, worked at George Washington and heard from a Clinton aide that an important person was coming their way. A young cardiologist named Monica Mukherjee met the…</p>
<p>Dr. Monica Mukherjee (Indian) and Dr. Farzad Najam (Pakistani) doctors did emergency surgery on Richard Holbrooke (Obama's Special Rep for Afghanistan and Pakistan) at George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC. Here's an except from George Packer's biography of Holbrooke:<br/><br/>Hillary Clinton’s doctor, Jehan El-Bayoumi, worked at George Washington and heard from a Clinton aide that an important person was coming their way. A young cardiologist named Monica Mukherjee met the ambulance at the doors and led the gurney through the emergency room to radiology. Holbrooke was screaming in pain. Mukherjee tried to settle him down for the CT scan. She could already tell that his aorta had torn. She didn’t know who he was but he seemed gigantic to her, much too long for the gurney. His enormous feet almost fell off the end. No blood was reaching those feet and their distress was now extreme. Feldman stepped away to call the doctors in New York.<br/><br/>“Where’s Dan,” Holbrooke demanded, “where’s Dan?” “You have to calm down,” Mukherjee told him. The scan showed a Type A aortic dissection, meaning straight to surgery. In the secretary of state’s office the force of his heart pounding blood under immense pressure through the stressed and weakened aneurysm had torn a hole in the aorta’s inner layer, and as blood streamed between the layers the torn flaps blocked the flow to the spinal arteries, and his lower half was cut off.<br/><br/>Mukherjee called the hospital’s chief cardiac surgeon (Dr. Farzad Najam), who was fifteen minutes away. “You need to come right now. It’s a VIP.” “Who is it?” “His name is Holbrooke.” He was wheeled into the triage trauma bay and a curtain was drawn around the gurney. Feldman was on his left side, holding his hand, and LaVine was at the foot of the bed. Mukherjee was trying to get a catheter into his right wrist to monitor blood pressure, but he was in such turmoil that she couldn’t do it. His skin was cold and clammy and he looked as if he was about to pass out, but Mukherjee was struck by how he dominated the room—not just his size but his sheer presence, the light in his ice-blue eyes. She was still struggling with the IV. “This may hurt.”<br/><br/>---<br/>He closed his eyes. “I hate the beach.” “Okay, what do you like?” He opened them and looked at Mukherjee. “I like beautiful women.” Mukherjee was getting a little annoyed. El-Bayoumi told him again to relax. “I can’t relax. I’m in charge of Afghanistan and Pakistan.” “And Iraq?” “No, I don’t care about Iraq. I’m trying to bring peace to Afghanistan.” “Just relax,” El-Bayoumi said. “Let me worry about Afghanistan.” “Fine. You end the war.” He was handed consent forms to sign but was in too much pain to read them. “I have a problem with the second clause,” he said, putting on. He signed.<br/><br/>They wheeled him to the elevator and took him up to the second floor. He kept instructing Feldman. “Tell Mort Janklow. No, wait till the operation is over, and don’t release a press statement till it’s over.” In the intensive care unit the surgeon introduced himself. “Mr. Holbrooke, I am Dr. Farzad Najam, the cardiac surgeon here.” “Any Indian-American doctor is okay with me,” Holbrooke said. Still putting on. Najam and Mukherjee exchanged a look. Najam was a Pakistani American, from Lahore. He knew about Holbrooke’s work. “Just tell me it’s going to be okay.” “Mr. Holbrooke, you have an acute aortic dissection—the aorta has ripped. It’s a surgical emergency and we need to take you to the operating room.” Najam would have to cut through the breastbone, put him on a bypass pump, and replace the aorta and perhaps the valve.<br/><br/>Packer, George. Our Man . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.</p>
<p class="comment-timestamp"></p> As of 2016, there were 12,454…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2023-04-13:1119293:Comment:4226482023-04-13T18:19:56.360ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>As of 2016, there were 12,454 Pakistani doctors and 45,830 Indian doctors out of 215,630 total in the United States.</span><br></br><br></br><br></br><span><a href="https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=68336" target="_blank">https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=68336</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>India 45,830</span><br></br><br></br><span>Pakistan 12,454</span><br></br><br></br><span>Grenada 10,789</span><br></br><br></br><span>Philipines 10,217</span><br></br><br></br><span>Dominica 9,974</span><br></br><br></br><span>Mexico…</span></p>
<p><span>As of 2016, there were 12,454 Pakistani doctors and 45,830 Indian doctors out of 215,630 total in the United States.</span><br/><br/><br/><span><a href="https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=68336" target="_blank">https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=68336</a></span><br/><br/><span>India 45,830</span><br/><br/><span>Pakistan 12,454</span><br/><br/><span>Grenada 10,789</span><br/><br/><span>Philipines 10,217</span><br/><br/><span>Dominica 9,974</span><br/><br/><span>Mexico 9,923</span><br/><br/><span>Canada 7,765</span><br/><br/><span>Dominican Republic 6,269</span><br/><br/><span>China 5,772</span><br/><br/><span>UAE 4,635</span><br/><br/><span>Egypt 4,379</span><br/><br/><span>------------</span><br/><br/><span>Total Foreign Doctors in UK 66,211</span><br/><br/><span>India 18,953</span><br/><br/><span>Pakistan 8,026</span><br/><br/><span>Nigeria 4,880</span><br/><br/><span>Egypt 4,471</span><br/><br/><span>Foreign Doctors in Canada 25,400:</span><br/><br/><span>South Africa 2,604</span><br/><br/><span>India 2,127</span><br/><br/><span>Ireland 1,942</span><br/><br/><span>UK 1,923</span><br/><br/><br/><span>US 1,263</span><br/><br/><br/><span>Pakistan 1,087</span></p> Farha Abbasi earns national r…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2023-04-01:1119293:Comment:4222452023-04-01T01:35:36.358ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Farha Abbasi earns national recognition for work on minority mental health | MSUToday | Michigan State University<br></br><br></br><br></br><a href="https://com.msu.edu/news_overview/news/2023/march/dr-farha-abbasi-earns-national-recognition-work-minority-mental-health" target="_blank">https://com.msu.edu/news_overview/news/2023/march/dr-farha-abbasi-earns-national-recognition-work-minority-mental-health</a><br></br><br></br>The first conference was conceived in the post-9/11 era, a time when Islamophobia,…</p>
<p>Farha Abbasi earns national recognition for work on minority mental health | MSUToday | Michigan State University<br/><br/><br/><a href="https://com.msu.edu/news_overview/news/2023/march/dr-farha-abbasi-earns-national-recognition-work-minority-mental-health" target="_blank">https://com.msu.edu/news_overview/news/2023/march/dr-farha-abbasi-earns-national-recognition-work-minority-mental-health</a><br/><br/>The first conference was conceived in the post-9/11 era, a time when Islamophobia, antisemitism and racism were “rampant and on the rise,” said Abbasi, who was born in Pakistan. For an academic institution, such as MSU, to believe in this notion and tend to the mental health needs of underrepresented and attacked groups like Muslims was a “phenomenal feat.”<br/><br/>Mental health is a privilege in many developing countries, she said, and MSU has the knowledge, resources and compassion to make a profound impact globally. “I am very grateful for the immense support I have received at the department, college and university levels.”<br/><br/>MSU has become a leading name in the field of Muslim mental health and Abbasi hopes to build upon those efforts. She, along with a group of psychiatrists of Pakistani origin, recently met with the president of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to support mental health infrastructure, inclusive health policies and the decriminalization of suicide in the country. Abbasi also has worked in a variety of other nations, including Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia and Turkey to provide first aid mental health training, capacity-building projects and more. She hopes to work with the MSU Institute of Global Health to continue integrating mental health into the global health curriculum.</p>
<p class="comment-timestamp"></p> The following article from th…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2022-01-11:1119293:Comment:4058152022-01-11T15:48:17.360ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>The following article from the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) says there are 14,352 Pakistan-i-American doctors of in America.</span><br></br><br></br><br></br><span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767883" target="_blank">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767883</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>Prevalence of International Medical Graduates From Muslim-Majority Nations in the US Physician Workforce From 2009 to…</span></p>
<p><span>The following article from the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) says there are 14,352 Pakistan-i-American doctors of in America.</span><br/><br/><br/><span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767883" target="_blank">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767883</a></span><br/><br/><span>Prevalence of International Medical Graduates From Muslim-Majority Nations in the US Physician Workforce From 2009 to 2019</span><br/><br/><span>John R. Boulet, PhD; Robbert J. Duvivier, MD, PhD; William W. Pinsky, MD</span><br/><br/><br/><span>Of 1 065 606 physicians in the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile, 263 029 (24.7%) were IMGs, of whom 48 354 were citizens of Muslim-majority countries at time of entry to medical school, representing 18.4% of all IMGs. Overall, 1 in 22 physicians in the US was an IMG from a Muslim-majority nation, representing 4.5% of the total US physician workforce. More than half of IMGs from Muslim-majority nations (24 491 [50.6%]) come from 3 countries: Pakistan (14 352 [29.7%]), Iran (5288 [10.9%]), and Egypt (4851 [10.0%]). The most prevalent specialties include internal medicine (10 934 [23.6%]), family medicine (3430 [7.5%]), pediatrics (2767 [5.9%]), and psychiatry (2251 [4.8%]), with 18 229 (38.1%) practicing in primary care specialties. The number of applicants for Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates certification from Muslim-majority countries increased from 2009 (3227 applicants) to 2015 (4244 applicants), then decreased by 2.1% in 2016 to 4254 applicants, 4.3% in 2017 to 4073 applicants, and 11.5% in 2018 to 3604 applicants. Much of this decrease could be attributed to fewer citizens from Pakistan (1042 applicants in 2015 to 919 applicants in 2018), Egypt (493 applicants in 2015 to 309 applicants in 2018), Iran (281 applicants in 2015 to 182 applicants in 2018), and Saudi Arabia (337 applicants in 2015 to 163 applicants in 2018) applying for certification.</span></p> Excerpts of "Our Man", biogr…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2022-01-11:1119293:Comment:4057572022-01-11T04:24:09.159ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
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<p>Excerpts of "Our Man", biography of late Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP), by George Packer<br></br><br></br>Holbrooke died in December 13,2010 after his aorta ruptured.<br></br><br></br>His emergency heart surgery was performed by Dr. Farzad Najam, a Pakistani-American heart surgeon at George Washington Hospital in Washington DC.<br></br><br></br>-------------------<br></br><br></br><br></br>Hillary Clinton’s doctor, Jehan El-Bayoumi, worked at George…</p>
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<p>Excerpts of "Our Man", biography of late Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP), by George Packer<br/><br/>Holbrooke died in December 13,2010 after his aorta ruptured.<br/><br/>His emergency heart surgery was performed by Dr. Farzad Najam, a Pakistani-American heart surgeon at George Washington Hospital in Washington DC.<br/><br/>-------------------<br/><br/><br/>Hillary Clinton’s doctor, Jehan El-Bayoumi, worked at George Washington and heard from a Clinton aide that an important person was coming their way. A young cardiologist named Monica Mukherjee met the ambulance at the doors and led the gurney through the emergency room to radiology.<br/><br/>--------<br/><br/>Mukherjee called the hospital’s chief cardiac surgeon, who was fifteen minutes away. “You need to come right now. It’s a VIP.” “Who is it?” “His name is (Richard) Holbrooke.” He was wheeled into the triage trauma bay and a curtain was drawn around the gurney. Feldman was on his left side, holding his hand, and LaVine was at the foot of the bed. Mukherjee was trying to get a catheter into his right wrist to monitor blood pressure, but he was in such turmoil that she couldn’t do it. His skin was cold and clammy and he looked as if he was about to pass out, but Mukherjee was struck by how he dominated the room—not just his size but his sheer presence, the light in his ice-blue eyes.<br/><br/>--------------------<br/><br/>They wheeled him to the elevator and took him up to the second floor. He kept instructing Feldman. “Tell Mort Janklow. No, wait till the operation is over, and don’t release a press statement till it’s over.” In the intensive care unit the surgeon introduced himself. “Mr. Holbrooke, I am Dr. Farzad Najam, the cardiac surgeon here.” “Any Indian-American doctor is okay with me,” Holbrooke said. Still putting on. Najam and Mukherjee exchanged a look. Najam was a Pakistani American, from Lahore. He knew about Holbrooke’s work. “Just tell me it’s going to be okay.” “Mr. Holbrooke, you have an acute aortic dissection—the aorta has ripped. It’s a surgical emergency and we need to take you to the operating room.” Najam would have to cut through the breastbone, put him on a bypass pump, and replace the aorta and perhaps the valve.<br/><br/><br/>Packer, George. Our Man . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.</p>
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<p>Pakistani-American heart surgeon Dr. Mohammad Mohiuddin and Dr. Bartley Griffith performed the first successful genetically-modified pig heart transplant into a human patient today at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) hospital in Baltimore, according to the University's press release. Considered one of the world’s foremost experts on transplanting animal organs, known as xenotransplantation, Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MD, Professor of Surgery at UMSOM, joined the UMSOM faculty five years ago and established the Cardiac Xenotransplantation Program with Dr. Griffith. Dr. Mohiuddin serves as the program’s Scientific/Program Director and Dr. Griffith as its Clinical Director.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.riazhaq.com/2022/01/pakistani-american-surgeontransplants.html" target="_blank">https://www.riazhaq.com/2022/01/pakistani-american-surgeontransplants.html</a></p>
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<p></p> St. Louis County Health Direc…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2021-09-22:1119293:Comment:4027962021-09-22T17:37:16.159ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>St. Louis County Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan, a Pakistani American, was subjected to racial abuse at a St. Louis County Council meeting, according to multiple media reports. He apparently got caught up in the middle of a fierce, angry debate on new mask mandates amid surging infections attributed to the Delta variant of the COVID19 virus that originated in India. The anti-mask crowd is particularly strong in Republican states that voted for former President Donald J. Trump.…</p>
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<p>St. Louis County Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan, a Pakistani American, was subjected to racial abuse at a St. Louis County Council meeting, according to multiple media reports. He apparently got caught up in the middle of a fierce, angry debate on new mask mandates amid surging infections attributed to the Delta variant of the COVID19 virus that originated in India. The anti-mask crowd is particularly strong in Republican states that voted for former President Donald J. Trump.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.riazhaq.com/2021/07/racial-slurs-hurled-at-pakistani.html" target="_blank">https://www.riazhaq.com/2021/07/racial-slurs-hurled-at-pakistani.html</a></p> Dr. Hasan Gokal, a #Pakistani…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2021-09-22:1119293:Comment:4029972021-09-22T17:35:51.763ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Dr. Hasan Gokal, a #Pakistani #American doctor in #Texas, was fired after doling out expiring #vaccine doses. Now, he’s suing Harris County Public Health Dept over wrongful termination. #COVID19 #Pandemic #Racism #Islamophobia <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/22/hasan-gokal-texas-vaccine-lawsuit/?tid=ss_tw" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/22/hasan-gokal-texas-vaccine-lawsuit/?tid=ss_tw</a><br></br><br></br>The doctor believed he was doing the right…</p>
<p>Dr. Hasan Gokal, a #Pakistani #American doctor in #Texas, was fired after doling out expiring #vaccine doses. Now, he’s suing Harris County Public Health Dept over wrongful termination. #COVID19 #Pandemic #Racism #Islamophobia <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/22/hasan-gokal-texas-vaccine-lawsuit/?tid=ss_tw" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/22/hasan-gokal-texas-vaccine-lawsuit/?tid=ss_tw</a><br/><br/>The doctor believed he was doing the right thing after Jennifer Shuford, chief epidemiologist with the Texas Department of State Health Services, warned physicians not to waste the shots and said it was even acceptable to give leftover doses to ineligible people if the vaccines would otherwise expire.<br/><br/>But on Jan. 7, Harris County Public Health fired Gokal for doling out the shots. Officials within the county health department then shared false information with the local district attorney’s office, Gokal said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, spurring prosecutors to bring criminal charges against Gokal for allegedly stealing vaccine vials and giving shots to friends and family. That month, he was charged with theft by a public servant, a misdemeanor that was ultimately dismissed.<br/><br/>Gokal is suing Harris County Public Health for wrongfully firing him, orchestrating a “misinformation campaign” aimed at stripping him of his medical license, and discriminating against the doctor based on his race and national origin. Harris County Public Health did not immediately return a request for comment from The Washington Post early Wednesday.<br/><br/>The termination and subsequent efforts to pursue criminal charges against Gokal left him struggling to find a new job in public health, he said.<br/><br/>“If you Google my name, you’ll see ‘doctor theft,’ ‘doctor theft,’ so on and so forth,” Gokal told KTRK on Tuesday.<br/><br/>According to the lawsuit, a human resources director allegedly told the doctor that he “did not ‘equitably’ distribute the vaccine and gave the vaccine to too many individuals with ‘Indian’ sounding names.” Gokal’s attorney told KTRK that the 10 individuals Gokal was able to reach before the vaccine expired “happen to be South Asian.” Gokal, who is from Pakistan, sought out at-risk patients “without race in mind,” according to the suit. Instead, it adds, he tried to ensure that the extra doses went to people who were particularly vulnerable to the novel coronavirus because of underlying health conditions.<br/><br/>The lawsuit said that Harris County Public Health did not properly investigate the allegations made against Gokal. The department “never interviewed Dr. Gokal, never took his statement, never asked for his side of the story, conducted no internal investigation of the matter, and never sought to get the facts straight,” the lawsuit states.</p>
<p class="comment-timestamp"></p> Pakistani doctors recognize t…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2021-07-05:1119293:Comment:4009982021-07-05T16:29:26.197ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Pakistani doctors recognize the heroes of pandemic among them | ksdk.com<br></br><br></br><a href="https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/pakistani-physicians-of-st-louis-acknowledge-their-heroes-appna-who-forge-ahead-against-pandemic/63-4f5df9a5-15cb-4058-900f-3cf58ff1645e" target="_blank">https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/pakistani-physicians-of-st-louis-acknowledge-their-heroes-appna-who-forge-ahead-against-pandemic/63-4f5df9a5-15cb-4058-900f-3cf58ff1645e</a><br></br><br></br>T. LOUIS COUNTY,…</p>
<p>Pakistani doctors recognize the heroes of pandemic among them | ksdk.com<br/><br/><a href="https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/pakistani-physicians-of-st-louis-acknowledge-their-heroes-appna-who-forge-ahead-against-pandemic/63-4f5df9a5-15cb-4058-900f-3cf58ff1645e" target="_blank">https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/pakistani-physicians-of-st-louis-acknowledge-their-heroes-appna-who-forge-ahead-against-pandemic/63-4f5df9a5-15cb-4058-900f-3cf58ff1645e</a><br/><br/>T. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — The Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America recognized healthcare workers for being on the front lines during the ongoing pandemic.<br/><br/>"I think there's strength in numbers," said Dr. Tariq Alam, St. Louis Chapter President of APPNA. "One physician alone can't win this fight. We all have to pour in our ideas. Get the best from everyone and get the best solution for our region."<br/><br/><br/>For the 250-plus members, collaborating across healthcare networks in our region was easy, Dr. Alam said. He also says it brought doctors closer to the community.<br/><br/>"We have many who have language barriers, or economic barriers," Dr. Alam said. "Basically being able to reach out to them, I think that is one of our highlights."<br/><br/>Member and St. Louis County Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan said there's not enough praise to go around.<br/><br/><br/>"The only reason we aren't looking at a 3 million or 4 million death count is because of the selfless work and sacrifice of healthcare providers across the country," Dr. Khan said. "We owe them everything."<br/><br/>Khan said the work isn't done yet.<br/><br/>"I am very happy that nearly 35% in the St. Louis region is vaccinated," Dr. Khan said. "I am equally worried that 65% of us are not. We are not out of this yet."<br/><br/>Khan is happy that county leaders support strong health guidelines until we cross the finish line. He said it's going to take more community action before things return to normal.<br/><br/>"It depends entirely on how the virus behaves, on the number of people getting vaccinated and the spread of disease in smaller communities in high-risk groups," Khan said.<br/><br/>Until then, doctors say mask up and get the vaccine or encourage others to do so.</p>
<p class="comment-timestamp"></p> Eight #UK Doctors Died From #…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2020-04-10:1119293:Comment:2123662020-04-10T01:47:58.651ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Eight #UK Doctors Died From #Coronavirus . All Were Immigrants from former #British colonies: #Egypt , #India, #Nigeria, #Pakistan, #SriLanka and #Sudan</span><br></br><br></br><br></br><span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/europe/coronavirus-doctors-immigrants.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/europe/coronavirus-doctors-immigrants.html</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>----------------</span><br></br><br></br><span>The coronavirus has taken a…</span></p>
<p><span>Eight #UK Doctors Died From #Coronavirus . All Were Immigrants from former #British colonies: #Egypt , #India, #Nigeria, #Pakistan, #SriLanka and #Sudan</span><br/><br/><br/><span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/europe/coronavirus-doctors-immigrants.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/europe/coronavirus-doctors-immigrants.html</a></span><br/><br/><span>----------------</span><br/><br/><span>The coronavirus has taken a devastating toll on migrant doctors across Britain, leaving at least six others dead: Dr. Habib Zaidi, 76, a longtime general practitioner from Pakistan; Dr. Alfa Sa’adu, 68, a geriatric doctor from Nigeria; Dr. Jitendra Rathod, 62, a heart surgeon from India; Dr. Anton Sebastianpillai, in his 70s, a geriatric doctor from Sri Lanka; Dr. Mohamed Sami Shousha, 79, a breast tissue specialist from Egypt; and Dr. Syed Haider, in his 80s, a general practitioner from Pakistan.</span><br/><br/><span>Barry Hudson, a longtime patient of Dr. Zaidi in southeastern England, recalled their exam table conversations about England’s cricket team.</span><br/><br/><span>“He was a big figure in the community,” Mr. Hudson said. “He had a proper doctor’s manner. He didn’t rush anybody.”</span><br/><br/><span>-----------------------</span><br/><br/><span>It is a story tinged with racism, as white, British doctors have largely dominated the prestigious disciplines while foreign doctors have typically found work in places and practices that are apparently putting them on the dangerous front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.</span><br/><br/><span>“When people were standing on the street clapping for N.H.S. workers, I thought, ‘A year and a half ago, they were talking about Brexit and how these immigrants have come into our country and want to take our jobs,’” said Dr. Hisham el-Khidir, whose cousin Dr. Adil el-Tayar, a transplant surgeon, died on March 25 from the coronavirus in western London.</span><br/><br/><span>“Now today, it’s the same immigrants that are trying to work with the locals,” said Dr. el-Khidir, a surgeon in Norwich, “and they are dying on the front lines.”</span><br/><br/><span>By Tuesday, 7,097 people had died in British hospitals from the coronavirus, the government said on Wednesday, a leap of 938 from the day before, the largest daily rise in the death toll.</span><br/><br/><span>And the victims have included not just the eight doctors but a number of nurses who worked alongside them, at least one from overseas. Health workers are stretched thin as hospitals across the country are filled with patients, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who this week was moved into intensive care with the coronavirus.</span><br/><br/><span>Britain is not the only country reckoning with its debt to foreign doctors amid the terror and chaos of the pandemic. In the United States, where immigrants make up more than a quarter of all doctors but often face long waits for green cards, New York and New Jersey have already cleared the way for graduates of overseas medical schools to suit up in the coronavirus response.</span><br/><br/><span>But Britain, where nearly a third of doctors in National Health Service hospitals are immigrants, has especially strong links to the medical school systems of its former colonies, making it a natural landing place.</span><br/><br/><span>That was true for Dr. el-Tayar, 64, the oldest son of a government clerk and a housewife from Atbara, Sudan, a railway city on the Nile.</span><br/><br/><span>He had 11 siblings, and one left a special impression: Osman, a brother, who became ill as a child and died without suitable medical treatment. Though Dr. el-Tayar rarely spoke of his brother’s death, he gave the same name to his oldest son.</span><br/><br/><span>“In my mind, I think that’s what led him to medicine,” Dr. el-Khidir said. “He didn’t want anyone else in his family to feel that.”</span><br/><br/><span>------------</span><br/><br/><span>By recruiting foreign doctors, Britain saves the roughly $270,000 in taxpayer money that it costs to train doctors locally, a boon to a system that does not spend enough on medical education to staff its own hospitals. That effectively leaves Britain depending on the largess of countries with weaker health care systems to train its own work force.</span></p>