Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru
A senior member of the Beary community, he was a socially engaged person.
Bengaluru, Oct 9: Mohammed Umar Farooq, a senior member of the Beary community who served as male nurse in Aramco, Saudi Arabia for more than two decades, passed away on Sunday October 9 evening after brief illness. He was 76.
Farooq did his BSc Nursing from Manipal and did his internship at Government Wenlock Hospital, Mangaluru. Later he left for Bahrain where he was employed in a hospital for three years. He moved to Dammam in 1973 to join the Aramco Hospital where he put in 23 years of service. He took voluntary retirement to return to India and chose to settle in Bengaluru.
A very well-read person, Farooq sab was very active on social circuit. He was trustee on the Board of Shihabul Uloom Residential School and Shihab English Medium School at Mangalapady village in Kasargod district headed by Sheikh Abdullah, Mangaluru-based Chartered Accountant. He was also an active member of the Centre for Contemporary Studies in Bengaluru for nearly a decade.
He leaves behind his widow Rehana, sons Mujahid (an engineer settled in the United States), Basith (working in Bengaluru) and daughter Dr Niloufer serving in a hospital in Bengaluru. His son-in-law Khalilur Rahman is Resident Medical Officer in Ramangaram.
He took keen interest in welfare of underprivileged persons in the society and helped scores of students to come up in life.
He will be laid to rest in Bengaluru on Monday October 10, the family announced.