Patient Services Manager, Cure Hospital

Dr. Mohammad Rafiq Qazizada was born in Khost province.  One of five children, he and his family traveled on foot and by camel to Pakistan when he was 15 years old to avoid the Russian fighting. He lived a ‘simple life’ there for eighteen years, at times in a refugee camp and at other times with relatives. After finishing high school and being accepted into medical school, he moved without his family to Kabul, where he graduated after seven years from the Kabul Medical University. Upon graduation, he started working for the MOPH at the Central Poly Clinic in Kabul. Following this, he worked for five years with MedAir as part of their program to implement the Basic Package of Health Services in Badakshan Province in some of its most remote regions.

Well known to our Afghan hospital leadership, Dr. Rafiq was recruited in 2009 to fill the difficult and vacated post of Obstetric Fistula Outreach Coordinator. After spending many days and nights traversing Afghanistan’s remotest provinces, and not always free from risk, he was reassigned in 2016 to be the Manager of the Cure Family Health Clinic. And he serves today as Cure Hospital’s Patient Services Manager.