Dr. Muawiya Al-Shannar, who passed away two days ago, and was mourned by the Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid, was one of the first doctors to practice medicine in the private sector in the country, at the beginning of the sixties of the last century.
His Highness mourned, through his Twitter account, the late Dr. Muawiyah Al-Shannar, who died the day before yesterday, saying: “We extend our condolences to the family of Dr. Muawiyah Al-Shannar, may God have mercy on him. The late was one of the first doctors in the Emirates and contributed to the establishment of family medicine in Dubai and was keen to take care of people. The biography of pioneers such as Dr. Muawiya will remain firmly in the memory of Dubai society. We ask God to bless the deceased with his mercy and dwell in his vast gardens.”
Dr. Muawiyah was one of the most famous doctors in the field of family medicine and children in the Emirate of Dubai. He established his first clinic in Baniyas Square on Al Maktoum Street, in the sixties and seventies, and then moved to his new headquarters in Deira, and he was famous among the people of Dubai for treating children Young men and men, and during that period he married Dr. Zainab Kazim, the first Emirati female doctor, making them a family specialized in medicine.
The late Dr. Muawiya was born in 1935 in the city of Nablus in Palestine, where he grew up in the city and obtained his primary and preparatory certificates and graduated from high school with a large sum. He then moved directly to Egypt to complete his university studies, where he joined the Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University, and after graduating from the Faculty of Medicine In the early sixties, he moved to work in the UAE, at that time in Dubai, and joined the Kuwait Hospital, then the administration transferred him to the hospital branch in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, and after a while he returned to Dubai, and the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum urged him, may his soul rest in peace. To open a clinic in Dubai, to be the first private clinic in the Emirate of Dubai in the Baniyas Square area to treat citizens and residents.
Two years after the opening of his clinic in Dubai, Dr. Zainab Kazem, the first Emirati doctor, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, joined him. She was working in Kuwait Hospital and got to know her there when he started working in Dubai at the time, but she insisted on leaving the hospital and standing next to her husband and supporting him in his work, and this shared with him The Long Human Medical Journey.
The family of the late, their father, mourned, saying: “With hearts that believe and are satisfied with God’s judgment and destiny, he moved to the mercy of God Almighty, Dr. Muawiya Saleh Al-Shannar, and the funeral prayer was held, yesterday, Tuesday, after the afternoon prayer in the Al Quoz cemetery, the Emirate of Dubai.”
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