Dr O

My dear friend Ihsan, visiting from Khartoum. She works tirelessly to improve Haematopathology in Sudan and foster links with our centre in Edinburgh. I was privileged to visit her lab three years ago and meet her colleagues. I was made so welcome, a humbling experience.
They are a great team, working in very difficult conditions. Not only the fabric of the building but also struggling to obtain reagents and maintain their instruments in the face of international embargoes! Embargoes are such an indiscriminate tool - they have to pay over the odds for inferior products from those countries that will supply them. It should be a war crime to deny a nation access to safe reliable diagnostic reagents for their cancer patients.