Dr. Mohamed Seghir Nekkache
Source: Ain Naadja Central Military Hospital Archives
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Dr. Mohamed Seghir Nekkache 🇩🇿

الدكتور محمد الصغير نقاش (Known as "Dr. Nekkache")
Founder of the Health Services of the ALN, First Minister of Health of Algeria
Born Apr 26, 1918 🇩🇿 Béchar, Algeria
Passed Away May 29, 2010 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 92 years old
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"No soldier of liberation was left to bleed alone while our hands could reach him."

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Visionary military physician who created and structured the health and medical services of the ALN in the maquis and served as independent Algeria's first Minister of Health.

Biographical Record

Mohamed Seghir Nekkache was born in Béchar and studied medicine in Paris, specializing in neurology and surgery. Responding to the call of the revolution in 1955, he organized clandestine medical evacuation channels for wounded freedom fighters across the Algerian-Moroccan border.

Dr. Nekkache established underground field hospitals, trained hundreds of battlefield nurses, and recruited foreign medical specialists to aid the ALN. Appointed first Minister of Health in 1962, he established the universal free healthcare system, built medical institutes, and eradicated major post-war epidemics.

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Final Resting Place

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El Alia Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7267, 3.1611
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