Doctor of the poor 

Dr. Mohamed Mashali was born in Beheira in 1944, and he graduated from Cairo Medical College in 1967, and succeeded in registering his name in letters of light in the hearts of Egyptians.

 

The life of the late doctor Muhammad Mashali, known in Egypt as the " the doctor of the poor", was not known to many. He was a doctor who practiced his work in the countryside of Egypt, treating the poor, through a small clinic in Tanta, for a nominal fee of 10 pounds.

 

In one of his interviews with Egyptian media, the late doctor recounted the incident, and said in tears when he remembered that he had been assigned to a health unit in a poor area, and he went to treat a small child with diabetes who was crying in pain and told his mother, 'Give me an insulin injection. You will not be able to buy food for the rest of his siblings, so that the child will then rush to the roof of the house and set himself on fire.

The late doctor says that since that episode he decided to devote himself to serving and treating the poor, adding that he came from a poor and humble family, and given what his brothers and siblings suffered, this made him feel the suffering of the poor.

 

In another interview, the late doctor said that the poor were suffering from diseases related to poverty and their work in agriculture, such as schistosomiasis, enchylostoma and ameba, and they did not have the price for examination with the doctors, so he volunteered to treat them from these diseases, as he specialized in children's diseases after the incident of the young child, advising young doctors to serve the poor and treat them He says to them, I recommend you to the poor with good, and this was his last commandment, according to what his son Walid Mashali stated.

 

The late doctor says his professors at the Faculty of Medicine in Qasr al-Aini used to tell them whoever does not want to own a building or a farmhouse, he must work in the villages to win the calls of the poor, and these are the greatest gains, adding that he used to hear the calls of the victorious and the poor with his ears, and he was fortified with them throughout his life.