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A Somali refugee just became the director of the Seattle clinic where she was cared for as a child
From https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/26/us/somali-refugee-director-seattle-clinic-trnd/index.html
A Somali refugee just became the director of the Seattle clinic where she was cared for as a child
By Alaa Elassar, CNN
Updated 2:26 PM ET, Sat October 26, 2019
Dr. Anisa Ibrahim, picture on her graduation day, is now directing the same Seattle clinic that took care of her when she was a child and newly arrived refugee.
(CNN) Dr. Anisa Ibrahim was 5 years old when her life was uprooted by the grisly consequences of a gruesome civil war.
Fleeing Somalia in 1992 with her family, Ibrahim sacrificed a year of her childhood in refugee camps in Kenya.
"There were so many people in small quarters, all of us were fleeing the downstream effects of violence and political unrest," Ibrahim, 32, told CNN. "Our family was luckier, but there was a lot of poverty, malnutrition, and infectious diseases and outbreaks."
The following year, Ibrahim's family was relocated to the United States, where she and her siblings -- including a younger sister who'd recently contracted measles -- were treated at Harborview Medical Center's Pediatrics Clinic in Seattle.
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN
Updated 2:26 PM ET, Sat October 26, 2019
Dr. Anisa Ibrahim, picture on her graduation day, is now directing the same Seattle clinic that took care of her when she was a child and newly arrived refugee.
(CNN) Dr. Anisa Ibrahim was 5 years old when her life was uprooted by the grisly consequences of a gruesome civil war.
Fleeing Somalia in 1992 with her family, Ibrahim sacrificed a year of her childhood in refugee camps in Kenya.
"There were so many people in small quarters, all of us were fleeing the downstream effects of violence and political unrest," Ibrahim, 32, told CNN. "Our family was luckier, but there was a lot of poverty, malnutrition, and infectious diseases and outbreaks."
The following year, Ibrahim's family was relocated to the United States, where she and her siblings -- including a younger sister who'd recently contracted measles -- were treated at Harborview Medical Center's Pediatrics Clinic in Seattle.
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