Sudanese professor bedridden after car crash kills her husband in Ras Al Khaimah

A 51-year-old Sudanese university female professor known as "N.A.," specialising in Artificial Intelligence, and her husband had a traffic accident in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), which turned her life and the lives of her three children upside down.

The husband died while driving the car to drop her off at her workplace due to the vehicle colliding with a wall.

N.A. suffered severe fractures in both legs and feet, along with a pelvic crack, fractures in both thighs, and a fracture in the right hand which left her bedridden and unable to work.

She is now the sole breadwinner for the family after the departure of her husband, which burdened her with heavy financial loads including treatment fees and expenses.

The lady faces a heavy financial burden alongside her illness and sorrows, as the hospital where she was transferred and underwent 9 surgeries is demanding fees amounting to Dhs148,800.

Al Khaleej newspaper, accompanied by Mahra Sarai, Chairperson of the "Basmat Emirates" Association for Chronic and Humanitarian Diseases in Ras Al Khaimah, visited the victim and her family at her home in Julphar area of RAK.

N.A. was on her way to apply for a PhD in computer science, artificial intelligence, and statistics.

She said, "I came to the UAE in 2023, and I was working in Sudan as a university professor specialising in artificial intelligence and technology, while I now work in a private school and a charitable one in RAK. I have been bedridden for a month and a half due to the accident that occurred on the morning of July 9, 2026, while I was on my way to school accompanied by my husband who was driving after arriving from the Netherlands, and then he lost control of the steering wheel following a sudden heart attack he suffered, causing the vehicle to collide with a wall."

'We came to the UAE when we were at the peak of weakness, poverty, and need, due to the situation in the Sudan, and we found all the welcome and love, as the UAE opened its doors to us and provided us with education, health, and other basic services and care, as my sons and daughter study for free," she added.

The lady pointed out that she works on a "reward" basis in the field of data analysis at a private school in the morning, and as a teacher in a charitable school in the evening, and she had a month or two left to discuss and obtain her PhD.