Doctor on mission of mercy to help disaster victims

THE doctor who dropped everything to travel to the disaster zone was on a mission both personal and professional.

The professional part explained itself. Dr Rashid A Chotani is a professor of emergency medicine and global infectious disease surveillance at John Hopkins University’s centre for international emergency, disaster and refugee studies.

A place like the tsunami-hit Aceh provence of Indonesia, which mixes disaster, refugees and the massive disease potential, is right up his alley.