Afghanistan’s first woman lieutenant general and noted surgeon Suhaila Sidki died on Friday due to a Kovid-19 infection. Suhaila, a role model for the country’s women, was in the Afghan Army and practiced medicine under the Afghan Civil War under Taliban rule.
Lieutenant General Suhaila Siddique succumbed at the Sardar Mohammed Ran Khan Military Hospital due to Corona virus infection. She had come in the grip of this infection earlier this year, but then became healthy. She was the director of a 400-bed military hospital in Kabul. Suhaila was one of the two women appointed to the post during the post-Taliban transition. Suhaila, popularly known as General Siddique, was suffering from Alzheimer’s. Although no one is aware of her actual date of birth, it is estimated that she will be 80 or 81 years old.
Doctorate degree obtained from Moscow
General Suhaila Siddique was probably born in 1938. Born in Kabul, Suhaila studied in high school and then Kabul University. At that time, his country was struggling with the Cold War. After this, she lived and studied in Moscow for many years under scholarship. She returned to Afghanistan with a doctorate degree.
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Suhaila’s father was the governor of Kandahar and had six sisters. The father has a great contribution in his education initiation. Suhaila was actually a descendant of Barakzai who ruled Afghanistan for more than 100 years during the 19th and 20th centuries. General Siddique remained unmarried. After the end of the rule of the Communist government in 1992, General Siddique was reinstated in the hospital. He was personally requested by the then Defense Minister Ahmed Shah Masood to run the hospital.
