Onaly Abdulakarim Kapasi was born in Mombasa Kenya and brought up in Zanzibar and Tanga, Tanganyika. He went to medical school in Poona and Bombay and returned back to Kenya where he worked as a ho...view moreOnaly Abdulakarim Kapasi was born in Mombasa Kenya and brought up in Zanzibar and Tanga, Tanganyika. He went to medical school in Poona and Bombay and returned back to Kenya where he worked as a house officer at the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa and later at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.
He came to Boston, Massachusetts on a Harvard Fellowship to Boston’s Children Hospital Medical Center. He subsequently trained at the Harvard University Surgery Program and Tufts University Orthopedic Program.
He practiced orthopedic surgery in Boston where he opened his first office at the prestigious and historic 1180 Beacon Street, Brookline address and later expanded orthopedic practice to Cambridge, Dedham and Haverhill.
His first publication in 2014, Mind’s Eye a book of personal poems is well received, proceeds of the book are entirely donated to medical charity. He has helped finance and operate a free clinic in the Himalayan town of Mandi for the past twenty-one years, and also carried out medical missionary work in Africa, supplying Tanzania and Sudan with much needed orthopedic hardware and equipment. He has done free major joint replacements in Bombay and Poona in collaboration with local orthopedic surgeons.view less