Evan Atar Adaha

Evan Atar Adaha (born 1960 or 1966 or 1967) is a South Sudanese surgeon who won the Nansen Refugee Award in 2018. Adaha left his physician's job in Egypt to provide healthcare in Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War. When violence forced him out of Sudan, he relocated to South Sudan and set up the only hospital in Upper Nile State that provides surgical capacity.

Early life and education Adaha was born in Torit, Eastern Equatoria in 1966 or 1967. He attended primary school in Juba and attended university in Khartoum. In 2011, violence from the war forced him to relocate to Bunj, Maban County, Upper Nile State. The hospital has 120-beds, two operating theatres facility, a neonatal section, and a tuberculosis ward. As of 2018, hospital had no blood bank, the x-ray machine was broken, the generators frequently break, anaesthesia capacity is limited and the theatres are lit with a single bulb. Staff, in 2018, included two Kenyan and a Ugandan doctor supported by several administration staff and midwives primarily from Kenya and Uganda. The hospital was donated an autoclave by Médecins Sans Frontières and received financial support from British members of parliament before getting support from the South Sudanese government.

Personal life Adaha was 52 years old in 2018.

He is married and with four children, who live in Nairobi.