Doc fleeing war zone pleads for help to get other NHS staff out

Registrar escapes after government makes U-turn after first only helping those with British passports

- SIMON MURPHY and CHRIS SLATER

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 Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI), had been left stranded in Sudan after being turned away when he tried to a flight out of the country as he only has a UK permit. But the 33-year-old, who had been visiting family, managed to later get out of the war-torn area on a flight arriving in Cyprus in the early hours of yesterday.