Dr Samkari is a general surgeon, who is also the founder of an innovative and meaningful initiative for disabled people called ‘Lametkher initiative’.
It is always surreal to know more about professionals and leaders across industries that come forward to make a positive impact on people through their knowledge and insights and create a world that takes people more towards truth and clarity in various subjects. Doctors and surgeons all over the world have been known to engage in heavy research and diving deep into various aspects of their field to bring about significant advancements to the medical world. One such doctor and general surgeon who has taken it up as his responsibility to bring about medical awareness in people is Dr Zaid Al-Samkari.
Dr Samkari graduated from Jordan University of Science and Technology and worked relentlessly to make a huge difference in people’s lives by imparting the right information to them regarding many medical misconceptions and give people more clarity on these topics. He completed his education from the University of Sydney, Australia and did his residency program in general surgery at the Royal Medical Services Hospitals, Arab board.
Looking at the rapid pace of the growth of social media platforms and how many medical theories and false ‘facts’ are widespread in society, Dr Samkari decided to take social media by storm with his activities in medical awareness and began creating educational medical content that can provide the right insights to people, clearing many of their doubts. His medical content has gone ahead to create a record for itself, where Dr Samkari has earned massive numbers of followers across his social media handles who trust him for his medical and educational content. For the same, he has already garnered more than 1 million views across social media platforms for his content.
To his credit, he has a successful and original medical series called “TikTALK”, consisting of eight episodes per season. With this one of a kind medical series, he carries out a social experiment where people are interviewed on streets and many of their medical misconceptions are brought to light and all these doubts, misinterpretations and lack of clarity on things are then corrected by Dr Samkari himself on the set.
What’s even more impressive about Dr Samkari is that he is the founder of ‘Lametkher initiative’ that works for the needs of the disabled. For this, Dr Samkari has even been a part of 22 successful events held in collaboration with various medical and governmental institutions. Across the medical and social media space, Dr Samkari is ranked amongst the top influencers, who talks about many unique medical topics and caters to all people of all age groups, especially young women between 18-24 years and older.
People trust Dr Samkari as a credible and ethical source of medical information for his degrees and years of experience in public and private sector hospitals, and his public services initiatives as well. So far, Dr Samkari has earned nearly 1 million followers on TikTok (850K) and Instagram (90K) combined. His growing presence also led him to get extensive media and Arab coverage, where he appeared on Al Mamlaka TV station, Jordan TV, also BBC. He has also been written about a lot in newspapers like Al Dustour, Al-Rai newspaper, and Al-Ghad newspaper. Dr Samkari has also been the brain behind the discovery of a link between appendicitis and genetic factors, amongst many other discoveries.
Dr Zaid Al-Samkari’s passion and special care for the minorities and their needs, relentless hard work and knowledge gained over the years has led to benefit society and has impacted people positively through his work.
