Introduction

Wahid Arian was a war child, born in Afghanistan in 1983 and raised during the brutal Soviet occupation. His parents sent him to London with a fake passport when he was just 15 years old. He funded his way through night school and convinced Cambridge University to give him a place studying medicine. Wahid is now a distinguished radiologist and emergency specialist who has set up a platform called Teleheal which allows western doctors to help colleagues in poorer countries via their smartphones.