An Ealing Hospital surgeon who runs a surgical charity in Africa is one of three organisations in the UK to receive special funding from the Royal College of Surgeons for England through its Stefan Galeski Global Surgery Fellowship .
Sala Abdalla recently collected a £5,000 cheque for the humanitarian work her charity Operation International UK does.
Ms Abdalla, whose family came to the UK from the Sudan, says she was determined to follow a career in medicine after being shocked by private healthcare in Sudan.
She said: “We left the Sudan when I was a ten-year-old but it made a real impression on me that if you didn’t have money you were often destined to die prematurely of otherwise treatable conditions.”
Her charity, Operation International UK, supports surgeons, nurses and anaesthetists volunteer to travel to low-income countries to carry out free operations and train doctors and nurses.
Ms Abdalla said: “It’s a very proud moment and I am thrilled beyond words that my charity has received this recognition.”
