2. Previous Functions:
Wazir Akhbar Khan Hospital Kabul Chief of Surgery (1996)
President Karzai's Advisor Health Affairs

3. Biodata:
Lt Gen Suhaila Siddiq, was born in Afghanistan 1940 (other sources say 1938). She was a serving General in the Afghan National Army has been appointed to the post of advisor in health affairs to the President. Lt Gen. Suhaila Siddiq was health minister in the transitional government of Hamid Karzai. An ethnic Muhammadzai Pashtun related to Afghanistan's royal family, she was given the rank of surgeon general during the communist rule of Najibullah. In September 1996, she was the chief of surgery at the capital's Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital.

Often referred to as "General Suhaila", Seddiqi is Afghanistan's most respected surgeon. She spent two decades working in Kabul's 400-bed military hospital, and her abdominal surgery is credited with saving hundreds of lives. She played a pivotal role in keeping hospitals going in the 1990s, when rocket attacks killed and injured thousands.

Seddiqi also managed to keep working throughout five years of Taleban rule - but only after the new regime realised how much they needed her. She was initially removed from her post as head of surgery at Kabul's Wazir Akbar Khan hospital when the Taleban swept to power in 1996. But the new leaders quickly discovered it was a mistake to deprive themselves of the skills of Afghanistan's most famous surgeon. Months after they had ordered her to stay at home, the doctor was reinstated.

In an interview at the time, Seddiqi voiced her contempt for the Taleban and its policy of barring women from the workplace and the classroom. "I didn't marry because I didn't want to take any orders from a man," the Guardian newspaper quoted her as saying. "Look at us now. " Seddiqi has close links to the family of the former Afghan king, who fled the country. In spite of this, she stayed in Afghanistan through both the Soviet and Taleban eras.

Suhaila Siddiq, the first female lieutenant general in Afghanistan and a well-known surgeon, who served for 36 years in Daud Khan Military Hospital, passed away at a hospital in Kabul today. According to doctors, Siddiq had Alzheimer’s disease and died from complications of a second Covid-19 infection.(20201204)

Siddiq was single and had no family member as her parents have passed away.