Omer Beleil

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Omer Beleil (Arabic: عمر محمد أحمدون بليل.) was first Sudanese and African, and second Arab kidney transplant doctor. He was born in Tangesi, Northern Sudan on 8^th of April 1938. His father was Mohammed Beleil and his mother was Dar Al-Jalal. He Had eleven siblings and his order between them was the fifth. He got married in 1964 to Najat Elkarib who was sister of his friend Tijani. He had 3 daughters Sara (b.1966), Selma (b.1971), and daughter Tanweer (b.1975), and a son Mohammed (b.1978). And he had sixteen grandchildren

Education and career

He received his initial education in the area of Tangesi, Al-Jazira, Sudan. In 1946 a flood destroyed all the schools.. Omar completed his primary education and joined Madani School, Middle School, and then graduated from Hantoub Secondary School. He graduated from the University of Khartoum Medical School in 1963. He worked as an internship in a hospital in Wad Medani, and then joined as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum in 1964. After that, he worked as a surgeon for four years in Sudan from 1964 to 1968

He passed the primary fellowship exam of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) with distinction in 1966.. In 1968 he moved to the United kingdom (UK) with his wife Nagat and daughter Sara intending to specialize in Neurosurgery, three months before his graduation he was diagnosed with renal failure. So he stopped studying and went through kidney transplant surgery. After he recovered, he did not complete his Neurosurgery degree and decided to specialize in Urology and Transplant surgery instead. The Beleil family moved to Los Angeles, the USA in 1970, where Omer completed a year-long residency at Harbor General Hospital. He received a doctorate degree and finished a post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA Medical Center. Therefore, he was the first to specialize in kidney surgery and transplant field outside the United States and Europe and the first in the Arab and Islamic world, Africa, and the Middle East

Omer returned to Sudan in 1973.. He joined the University of Khartoum as a Reader in Surgery and became a professor in 1976. By that time, the establishment of a kidney transplant unit began at Khartoum Hospital, and the first operation was performed on a Saudi patient. Omer spent two decades establishing Sudan's first university teaching hospital, Soba University Teaching Hospital, between 1975 and 1978. During the period 1978-1980, he served as Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Khartoum, then in 1980, he was named Director-General of the Arab Medical Specialization Board. In 1981, Omer returned to the University of Khartoum as Vice-Chancellor for a four-year term. In 1986 as a lecturer and surgeon to the University of Khartoum as he was passionate about coaching and training future physicians, where he became the department's head in 1990

Awards

• Received the Kitchener Award for highest achievement in 1963.
• Earned the Hallet prize in 1966.

List of works

Two Lives

Summary: In 1968, Omer was diagnosed with irreversible renal failure and was given six months to live. On 21 Oct 1969, his younger brother Sidieg donated his kidney to Omar. Dr. Belil wrote about his initial life before kidney failure and his post-transplant life.

Death

Dr. Omer passed away suddenly at the age of 53 in 1991.

References

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