Ramadan: Should Muslim Doctors Engage In fasting?
April 23, 2020
2:42 pm
New York City – Dr Ahmed Hozain intends to wake up around 4am on Friday and begin the first day of his Ramadan fasting. For 15 hours, the 32-year-old surgery resident and lung transplant researcher plans to abstain from eating, drinking, chewing gum and taking medicine as he goes through his daily routine, which now includes caring for more than a dozen COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit at the Brooklyn hospital where he works.
Hozain has been fasting since he was 10 years old, and although some days are harder than others, he generally feels good. He is
