Perhaps some of you heard about Dr. Hani bin Kamal Najm, head of the pediatric cardiac surgery department at the American Cleveland Clinic Hospital, and some of you may have heard of Dr. Muhammad Al-Dossary, head of the Children''s Neuroscience Center in the same hospital, as well as Dr. Saleh Al-Bazai, a consultant jaw and dental surgery at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, who returned to work. In the Kingdom after he achieved great fame in his field of specialization, and Dr. Nayef Al-Roudhan, a famous consultant neurosurgeon who returned to teaching in a number of international universities, accepted them, and we do not forget the mention of Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabiah, who achieved global distinction in surgery to separate Siamese twins, making the Kingdom an important center for these complex surgeries.
These and many other doctors, engineers, and academics are rightly stars. We have the right to be proud of them and their accomplishments. However, the appointment of Drs Najm and Al-Dossari to their positions showed us on social media contradictory feelings among Saudis. Among others, it is as if they have committed some kind of treachery, and the truth is that the owners of this last opinion, despite what their opinion seems to be patriotic, they misunderstand the importance of having qualified people who are qualified to work in international institutions, and it is strange that these people fully understand the importance of sending a soccer player Professionalism in the European League and they are demanding more of it.
The memory still preserves the case of Saudi doctors who were sent to study in Germany in the seventies of the last century, and refused to return due to a dispute with the government bureaucracy over the equivalence of their degrees, and they found no difficulty in finding work in the German health system, and they did not return until after they met the late King Fahd bin Abdulaziz May God have mercy on him, who listened to their problem and ordered that it be addressed immediately, at that time it was understandable due to the small number of Saudi doctors at the time, but today most Saudi universities graduate doctors until some thought to reduce them so that we would not find doctors on the unemployment lists .. The truth is that I still do not understand how it could be possible. No doctor can find a job in a country that is recruiting heavily.
Returning to Dr. Hani Negm, whom I met recently on a visit to the Kingdom, and while he was asked the question "When will you come back?" More than once, I asked him about his satisfaction and stability in his work in one of the most important cardiac surgery centers in the world, which was the center that presented the offer to him for more than two years until he agreed, because Cleveland knows full well the extent of his distinction and the achievements he has achieved in King Abdulaziz Medical City. For the National Guard in Riyadh. If you search for Dr. Negm''s name in search engines, you will immediately read dozens of articles and photo reports on his achievements (all in English, as the Arabs do not seem to care about these topics, as it seems), including the story of the child Ethan Bradley, who was born with a congenital heart condition, and lived to the age of nine threatening death due to a low rate Oxygen in the blood, until his physician referred him to Dr. Hani Najm to decide to use a new technique in imaging the child''s heart and printing it in 3D printing technology so that he accurately identifies its composition and decides to perform the operation by adjusting the arterial pathway to reach the lungs and to the rest of the body, and the child left after the operation and began to live His life is like other children.
Dr. Najm told me that there are dozens of Saudi doctors in North American hospitals, and no one knows their exact number or location, and that he is thinking of creating a bond for them that brings them together. He also told me that the benefit from his presence there is that he practices medicine and heart surgery in the most advanced centers and using the most recent Techniques and that he is competing with the most important American surgeons in this field, and it is sufficient that when he speaks, he states that he is Saudi, and that his patients know that he is Saudi and this is a gain.
Perhaps I cannot explain enough about the importance of the Saudi presence in advanced international institutions, but I must give an example in India, whose minds come from those who have become leaders of major technology companies in the United States as well as industrial companies and banks, and they did not go there because they could not find jobs, But because they can compete ... and thus influence the decision, and you may have seen how Sundar Pichai, the president of Google, stood to testify before the US Congress.
Perhaps this is an opportunity to reclaim the appointment of ambassadors from outside diplomacy, as follows: Encourage scientists, doctors, engineers and academics who are able to try to take a chance to work in major international companies everywhere, as they will eventually return to us with new experiences. Also, let us go to send a number of distinguished academics in scientific sabbatical years, asking them to be present in academic and media discussions and conferences to present theses that present their countries, and we also encourage scholarship students to do so.
The most important thing is that we do not leave them in the void, but continue to communicate with them and provide them with information that strengthens their argument, for these are the ones who will benefit us and not the public relations companies.
