Syrian expatriate brothers make humanitarian initiatives to support their fellow citizens

Two Syrian expatriate brothers, Murhaf and Moayad Ibrahim from the city of Homs are an example to follow through their continuous work to serve their country and help their fellow Syrians. Their work brought them together despite the difference in their educational achievement and the country of expatriation in which they reside.

SANA interviewed the two brothers at their home in the city of Homs. Dr. Morhaf Ibrahim, an expatriate doctor in America, talked about his career, saying: “After I finished high school in 1999, I completed my undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University and graduated in 2004. After that I traveled to the United States of America, specialized in internal diseases at the University of Texas Houston, then obtained the American Board in Cardiology from the University of Alabama. Then, I went to Florida to specialize again in arrhythmias and obtained 3 American board certificates by the end of 2013, when I started working in a hospital.

He pointed out that he had always felt loyalty to his country, and was looking for a way to return part of the favor to it, so the idea came to implant pacemakers in heart patients who need them, because they are in a situation where they have no medicine and the cost of pacemakers is very high.

He said: “The initiative was launched in 2022 by implanting two pacemakers in two patients, then I decided to develop it this year, so I brought 7 pacemakers that I implanted in 7 patients. I undertook various expenses as it was difficult to bring pacemakers to the country because of the so-called (Caesar’s Act). Hiwever, the improvement that the patient feels 15 minutes after the surgery is finished was an incentive for me to made me forget all the difficulties”.

He stressed that his future plan includes developing and expanding the initiative, noting that during his stay in Homs he met with the Rector of Al-Baath University and the director of the university hospital. The two sides agreed to cooperate in the educational field by trying to provide medical devices.

Similarly, and with the same love and belief in his homeland, Dr. Muayad Ibrahim a doctorate in public and economic law, works while he is an expatriate in Germany through many initiatives, the latest of which was embodied in helping his countrymen after the disaster of the recent earthquake.

He also pointed out that he has been an expatriate since 2005 and that during the past period he was the director of the cultural center in the city of Freiburg in which he lives, stressing that the so-called (Caesar’s Act) negatively affected the Syrian people.

The mother of the two young men confirmed her pride in her two sons and their tireless work to serve their Syrian brothers, indicating that many mothers whose children received pacemakers contacted her, expressing their great happiness with this initiative.

Finally, the father of the two young expatriates, in turn, confirmed that their initiatives are important, and they are a reflection of the sincere love he instilled in them since childhood, calling on all expatriates to follow such initiatives, to support their fellow citizens in Syria after the harsh years of war.

Leen Al Salman