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Saleyha Ahsan is a British physician, presenter and journalist. She has worked as a humanitarian doctor in conflict zones and as an A&E doctor in the UK, presented programmes including '' Trust Me I’m a Doctor'' and reported on conflict, social affairs, medicine, healthcare and the
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Early life

Ahsan was born in
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. Her mother was born in
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and her father was born in
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but lived in
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before arriving in the UK. She is the eldest of six siblings, all of whom have pursued careers in the
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Career

Ahsan graduated with an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the
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. She was the first British Muslim woman to attend the integrated male and female Royal Military Academy Sandhurst's Officer commissioning course. She achieved the rank of Captain in the British Army, and served in Bosnia as part of the NATO stabilisation force, completing three years in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Medical Support Officer. Ahsan qualified as a doctor (
MB ChB Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...
) in 2006 at the
University of Dundee School of Medicine The University of Dundee School of Medicine is the school concerned with medical education and clinical research at the University of Dundee in Scotland. In 1967, Dundee's medical school became independent in its own right having started in 1889 ...
, and gained her
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in International Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law in 2011. She worked as a humanitarian doctor in Libya during the
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in 2011, and then in Syria in 2013. She works as an
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doctor in
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hospital, in Bangor, North Wales.


Media and presenting

In 2008 her short film ''My Mother’s Daughter'' won Best European Film at Los Angeles film festival, Pangea. In 2018 she appeared on ''
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'' on Channel 4. Ahsan has presented a number of programmes for
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and the
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on the
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, including ''Dispatches - Coronavirus: Can Our NHS Cope?'' and ''What’s It Like to Catch Coronavirus?'' (Channel 4) and ''
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'', ''Panorama'', ''
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'', ''Trust Me I’m a Doctor'' and ''Horizon'' (BBC). She has also worked for ''
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'' and
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. In mid‑January 2022, Ahsan wrote dismissively about the unfolding British government
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crisis from the perspective of a doctor working in emergency medicine during the UK
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Politics

Ahsan was a
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list candidate for the London constituency in the
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. She was the
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candidate for the Milton Keynes South constituency in the 2019 general election. She is a
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candidate in 2022 elections for Mayor of Newham.


COVID-19

Ahsan filmed her experiences during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom for the Channel 4 programme ''Condition Critical: One Doctor’s Story''. During this period, Ahsan lost her father, Ahsan-ul-Haq Chaudry, age 81, after he contracted COVID-19. Ahsan has also spoken about how she was offered a COVID-19 vaccine for her father a week after he died. Ahsan is a member of the
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice (also known as Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK) is a pressure group of over 4,000 relatives of people who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. The group created the Natio ...
group, which advocates for a public inquiry into the UK's pandemic response. She told ''The Guardian'' that "You do not need to be a professor of epidemiology to chart ... the week before Christmas when everyone was going out about Christmas shopping to the spike that happened afterwards... That was avoidable and that was the wave that got my dad."


References

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