Seven Kurdish Doctors Rank First Across 22 Arab Countries
Seven Kurdish doctors who ranked first in their specialties across 22 Arab countries will be honored at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday.
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) - Seven Kurdish doctors from the Kurdistan Region will be honored on Wednesday at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo for ranking first in their medical specialties among doctors from 22 Arab countries. Six of them are due to attend the ceremony in the Egyptian capital to receive their awards.
The Arab Board of Health Specializations (ABHS), which is affiliated with the Arab League, is organizing the ceremony to honor 52 specialist doctors from different fields. The seven Kurdish doctors are among them, and three of the seven are women. One of the seven cannot attend because of personal circumstances.
The honorees are:
- Dr. Hersh Qadir Hamadamin, an internal medicine specialist
- Dr. Zarya Sherwan Mahmoud, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology
- Dr. Helin Burhan Darwish, a dermatology specialist
- Dr. Hawrin Osman Nuri, an anesthesiology specialist
- Dr. Omar Luqman Syamand, a psychiatrist
- Dr. Ali Ibrahim Hassan, a urology surgeon
- Dr. Bayar Abdullah Ahmed, a specialist in pediatric urology surgery.
Hamadamin told Kurdistan24 on Tuesday, that the ceremony will honor the top graduates of the ABHS 2025 cohort.
He explained how the awards are decided: each goes to the doctor who ranks first in a given specialty across all 22 countries, and first place depends on the theoretical assessment of each medical board.
At the end of each board’s studies there is a final assessment, he said, and the doctor with the top result in the theoretical evaluation takes first place.
By that measure, he said, the seven Kurdish doctors each came first in their own specialties.
He added that the 52 doctors being honored began their studies in 2019-2020 and completed the 2025 cohort, and that he personally ranked first in internal medicine among 400 doctors from the 22 countries who took part.
Hamadamin also said the ceremony is being held at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo for the first time, after being held annually in Jordan in previous years.
The health ministers of all 22 Arab countries are scheduled to attend this year’s ceremony, which makes the occasion a larger one than in earlier years.
The ABHS is the highest medical education and training institution at the Arab level. It was founded in 1978 and is affiliated with the Arab League.