17 years did not interrupt a Saudi doctor spent in the study of medicine, during which he presented 16 rigorous scientific researches and performed 150 global surgeries in addition to obtaining a certificate of general and consultant surgery, colon and rectal tumors surgery with robot, endoscopy and pelvic disorders, all of this did not help him to practice his precise specialization that he chose He sought to obtain it. Dr. Sami Fahd Al-Asari, who is returning to his homeland as the first Saudi scholarship to obtain a fellowship from Korea, found himself unemployed after he met him by refusing 22 hospitals in the Kingdom, either because there was no vacancy or lack of a budget to secure the necessary equipment, while other hospitals refused to acknowledge his certificate which he recognized The Ministry of Higher Education, the Ministry of Health, and the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.
Al-Asari began his studies in his specialty in 2011 and graduated in February 2014, after which he worked in King Faisal Specialist Hospital - Research Center - for a period of five years during which he presented four researches in colon and rectal surgery, two of which were published in a scientific scientific journal, one of which was on "the relationship of treatment Radiation rectal cancer with blood analysis, and the other on “Radiation cancer treatment of the rectum in women at an early age”, after which he obtained the Saudi Fellowship in General Surgery, the Saudi Board and the Arab Board, then the Ministry of Higher Education sent him to Korea to specialize in colon and rectal surgery with a robot, to become so The first Saudi to obtain a fellowship from Korea and work in the Seoul Severence Hospital in Korea, where he stayed in Korea for three years where he worked as a colon and rectal surgeon, whether by fully opening the abdomen, laparoscopes, robot or single opening surgery, and he also learned the technique of fecal incontinence treatment that specialization is Located in Saudi Arabia and the entire Middle East, indicating that robotic surgery has become a global surgery present in the majority of regions of the world, and in America and Korea 80 per cent of the operations performed by either a robot or endoscopes, while the Saudis There are about eight devices available, each of which costs approximately ten million riyals.
"After the completion of the three years, I returned to Saudi Arabia in the month of Ramadan before last and there was a presentation of two colon and rectal surgery jobs at Dammam Specialist Hospital. I presented via the Internet and the department head spoke to me and informed me of the need and desire of the hospital to work for them and ask for my papers, except that after the completion From my studies, I was surprised by his resignation a month before my return to Saudi Arabia, and then the administrative procedures were complicated in order to obtain a job in this hospital and other hospitals in the region.
The Saudi doctor notes that officials at King Fahd Medical City Hospital refused to recognize the fellowship from Korea, although the Ministry of Health and the Saudi Commission recognize it, and 100 doctors from Saudi Arabia are currently being dispatched to Korea, and the field is still open for scholarship.
Al-Asari indicated that work in the Ministry of Health is either through (self-employment) self-submission or through the civil service, the program of the Civil Service Bureau is carried out through "Jadara" which was submitted through it and did not accept his classification with a consultant certificate and thus the request was canceled in the merit, There was nothing left for him except for self-employment, and there are no jobs available for him now, as it was provided by self-operation in hospitals such as King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, which has a robot device without a surgeon operating colon and rectal robot surgery and offered them work for two months to operate the device and train doctors on it for a specific period However, they refused without justification, he said, as for the universities that have specialized hospitals, their justifications were varied, including that robot operations are not a priority, or because there are no vacancies or allocated budgets.
