Hero surgeon abused after 48 hours of savinglives

Naveed Yasin was stuck in traffic when he saw a van veering towards him, horn blaring. He did not take it personally and assumed the driver was suffering a bout of road rage.
Seconds later, the white, middle-aged van driver had lowered his window and was hurling obscenities at Yasin.
“You brown, P*** bastard,” he screamed. “Go back to your country, you terrorist. We don’t want you people here. F*** off!”
The target of the van driver’s fury was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon who had spent the previous 48 hours working to save the victims of last week’s bomb attack. Yasin, 37, was driving to Salford Royal Hospital to continue treating them.
After two gruelling days of surgery and dealing with the emotional toll of handling the emergency, he was stunned by the outburst — particularly as he was born and raised in Keighley, West Yorkshire.

He also knew that he and his family could have been victims of the bomb. Yasin’s elder daughter had wanted to go to the Ariana Grande concert, but he ruled against it because the event was on a school night.
“It so easily could have been us,” he said. “Terror attacks don’t discriminate against race or religion but this [the racial abuse] didn’t discriminate either.”
Yasin, who lives in Manchester with his wife Firdaus and daughters Amelia, 11, and Aleesa, seven, said: “The injuries patients have had include horrific [damage] to limbs, typical bomb-blast type injuries. Open fractures. Patients with penetrating injuries from shrapnel. It’s soul-destroying to see what the families involved are going through. And as a father, what I have witnessed is horrific.
“Many of my colleagues and I had never experienced injuries from a bomb blast and the effect it has, seeing these, is extremely profound and traumatising.”
Yasin said he was so taken aback by the volley of abuse from the van driver that he did not react. He was particularly offended to be told to “return to your country” — given that he had grown up only 30 miles away.
His great-grandfather moved from Pakistan to Yorkshire in the 1960s and spent several years working as a road sweeper and at a textile factory.
Yasin, who has told police and Tell Mama — a group that monitors racist attacks — about the encounter, assumes the van driver was overcome by anger about the ruined lives. “But no matter what I say to myself, I can’t take away the hatred he had for me because of my skin colour . . . and the prejudices he had associated with this.”
But he said he still felt optimistic. “Manchester is better than this. We Mancunians will rebuild. We will rebuild the fallen buildings, the broken lives and the shattered social cohesion we once had.”
Another doctor who treated Monday’s victims, A&E consultant Chris Moulton, was on duty when the IRA detonated a 1½-ton bomb in Manchester city centre in June 1996.
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