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Dr Waheed Arian, doctor

Desert Island Discs

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Dr Wahid Arian is a pioneer in telemedicine. Volunteer medics around the world use everyday mobile phone technology to advise doctors working on the ground thousands of miles away. He founded the charity Arian Teleheel in 2015 and won a UN Global Hero Award two years later. When he was just five, his family was forced to flee their home in Kabul during the Soviet Afghan conflict,. narrowly escaping the bombing raids that followed them to Pakistan.

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