Hospital tribute for hero doctor Isa Abdur Rahman

A field hospital in Syria will be named after a British doctor who was killed by a bomb as he treated wounded civilians.

Dr Isa Abdur Rahman, 26, had left his job at London’s Royal Free Hospital to become a volunteer medic with a British charity in Syria.

The married doctor, right, died after a shell hit the clinic where he was working in Idlib province last Wednesday.

More than £40,000 raised in his name will now be used to open a field hospital in his memory in the western city of Homs.

A statement from his friends and family said: “This was something Isa had been planning to do and has the capacity to treat many more people. Those who knew him will know what an amazing, inspirational, kind and deeply caring person he was.” Dr Rahman was working for Hand in Hand for Syria when he was killed.