Stranded Sudanese NHS doctor given seat on evacuation flight

An NHS doc refused a spot connected a UK evacuation formation from Sudan has present been fixed a seat.

Abdulrahman Babiker, a registrar successful Manchester, told Newsnight connected Thursday that helium felt "betrayed" aft helium was escorted from an airdrome adjacent Khartoum.

The Foreign Office earlier said it was prioritising UK nationals and radical successful Dr Babiker's concern tin participate the UK but indispensable marque their ain mode there.

It is thought astatine slightest 24 Sudanese NHS doctors were successful a akin position.

Speaking to the BBC connected Friday from the departure country astatine the evacuation airdrome northbound of the Sudanese capital, Dr Babiker said helium was delighted to beryllium leaving - crediting the nationalist attraction his communicative has received with the seeming alteration successful policy.

"I got truthful overmuch enactment from my colleagues astatine the hospital, from friends.... everyone knew the case," the Manchester Royal Infirmary doc told the BBC.

Despite his relief, helium said helium inactive had "mixed feelings" astatine leaving, arsenic galore household members are inactive successful Khartoum.

For astir 2 weeks, rival factions wrong the Sudanese subject person fought for control, destroying ample sections of the superior Khartoum successful the process and sidesplitting hundreds of civilians.

While Dr Babiker has present been allowed a spot connected an evacuation flight, it is not presently wide if determination has been an explicit alteration successful authorities policy. Dr Babiker said helium felt determination was a definite quality successful approach.

He said helium had heard of different doctors having a akin experience, and that others helium was successful interaction with had already been flown retired of Sudan and landed successful Cyprus. The UK has a subject aerial basal connected the land and is flying radical backmost to Britain from there.

The BBC has approached the Foreign Office for remark and is awaiting a response.

Additional reporting by Alex Binley

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