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Dr Adil Shubbar, the longest-serving consultant paediatrician and neonatologist at Corniche Hospital in Abu Dhabi, died on October 14. He was 78.
Born in Iraq in 1945, Dr Shubbar left the country at 17 and would never live there again.
He travelled to the UK to complete his studies, finishing a residency programme at St Andrew’s Hospital.
He trained under Dr Michael Phelps Ward, the famed English expedition doctor who climbed Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.
Dr Shubbar joined the staff at Corniche Hospital in 1980, rising through the ranks to become chief of neonatal service. He…
