Wa’el Seifeddin Boustany
Former consultant orthopaedic surgeon Damascus, Syria (b Damascus 1931;
q Damascus University 1956; LAH, FRCS, FRCSI), died from prostate cancer
on 16 December 2004.
Wa’el was from a medical family. He studied medicine in Damascus and came
to England in the 1960s for postgraduate training and held various house
posts. In 1966 he came to the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, as orthopaedic registrar.
He then moved to the South Infirmary in Cork, where he worked for many years.
In 1978 he fulfilled his dream of going home to Damascus, where he worked
in private practice. In 1989 he went to work in Al-Noor Hospital, Abu Dhabi,
where he stayed until retirement in 1998. He was a quiet, honourable and
courageous man in both his public and private life. He leaves a wife Catherine
and four sons. [Catherine Boustany]