Dr.Jimale Specialist Hospital

20/06/2025

…Doing the right things to save lives (limbs) and taking the right steps to alleviate pain and human suffering—

…The purpose of presenting my case here is to demonstrate our commitment to using the best evidence-based approach available in current surgical protocols. In other words, it is about preventing the loss of life or limb, often achieved through timely and appropriate medical care, high-level surgical interventions… Furthermore, it involves addressing both the physical pain and emotional distress associated with illness or injury. Our perioperative team which I had led as Chief Surgeon and Medical Coordinator at Keysaney Field Hospital, Mogadishu City, Somalia meticulously achieved pain relief through medications, physiotherapy and psychological support, following the surgical principles established by the International Committee of the Red Cross for War Surgery… During the “period” of high and low intensity of the Somali civil war, which unfortunately and sadly lasted for many years – almost a generational era in my country with unnecessary, unthinkable and premature loss of life, killed or maimed and costly destruction – physical destruction, for example of buildings or infrastructure; destruction and loss of historical sites… MJ

…On my return to Somalia 7 years ago, I have run into an elderly Somali patient whose life and right leg I had saved in 1992. The patient had a severe gunshot wound to the right thigh. A high velocity bullet had severed his right femoral artery, and had subsequently lost a lot of blood. I had corrected his hemorrhagic shock and successfully repaired his right femoral artery with the interposition of a saphenous vein graft. The femoral artery is still functioning and patent...after 26 years. MJ

17/06/2025

"...A successful surgeon should be a man who, if asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty choosing the other two..."
-By Dr. Denton Cooley, one of the world's most renowned heart surgeons; with his fellow surgeon and rival, Dr. Michael DeBakey, a major medical figure at the height of the Houston era, the epicenter and pioneer of heart surgery...“ MJ

19/05/2025

“The Man Who Gave the World a Second Chance at Life”

At a time when a diagnosis of diabetes was a slow march to death, one man’s quiet determination rewrote the fate of millions. Sir Frederick Banting, born in 1891 in Ontario, Canada, was not born into prestige, but his work would become one of the most life-saving medical breakthroughs in history. A surgeon with a restless mind and deep compassion, Banting was haunted by the suffering of diabetic patients—especially children—who wasted away despite their families’ desperate care. Back then, Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. The body starved from within, and doctors could do little but ease the decline.

But in 1921, in a humble lab in Toronto, Banting—alongside his assistant Charles Best, and later working with John Macleod and James Collip—unlocked the medical miracle the world so desperately needed: insulin. It was not discovered in fanfare but through sleepless nights, tireless research, and boundless belief. By isolating insulin from the pancreas, Banting made it possible to regulate blood sugar—and suddenly, those once-doomed patients could live. Children who had been wasting away began to thrive again. It was as if he had handed the world a new dawn.

In 1923, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, becoming the youngest recipient to date. He humbly shared his prize money with Best, reflecting the same selflessness that had driven his research. Unlike many, Banting was uninterested in wealth or fame—his reward was in the lives he saved. Throughout his life, he continued to serve, even as a medical officer during World War II, where he tragically died in a plane crash in 1941.

Though Sir Frederick Banting is no longer with us, his legacy endures every time a diabetic child laughs, grows, and lives a full life. From hospital wards to homes around the world, his gift keeps beating—quiet, constant, vital. “He didn’t seek to change the world. He sought to heal it—and in doing so, he gave it hope.”

05/03/2025

05/02/2025

Head and Neck Surgery

22/01/2025

https://bbc.com/news/articles/c20k5wrgz13o

War appears to have accelerated the spread of pathogens resistant to antibiotics in the country.

09/06/2024

In Medicine, more than a century ago, Sir William Osler, called surgeons for all time refine their craft and surgical skills, stating, “Diseases that harm require treatments that harm less.”
Sir William Osler, a Canadian physician (born July 12, 1849- died December 29, 1919) is considered as “the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the greatest diagnosticians…” MJ