An NHS doctor working at a Manchester hospital has managed to flee Sudan and has made a desperate appeal to Rishi Sunak to extend evacuation flights to help other medics get out.
Dr Abdulrahman Babiker, a registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI), had been left stranded in the war-torn country and said he felt 'betrayed' after initially being turned away when he tried to board a flight as he only has a UK permit.
But the 33-year-old, who had been visiting family and was due back on shift at the MRI, managed to later get out on a flight arriving in Cyprus in the early hours of Saturday. Speaking at Larnaca airport before flying to the UK, he urged the government to keep evacuation flights open longer.
