Anwar Miah and Issam Abuanza (Picture: Caption: Jamie Wiseman for The Daily Mail/Facebook)

A former NHS doctor and a British pharmacist who joined Islamic State (IS) carried out ‘Nazi-style’ medical experiments on prisoners, witnesses have claimed.

A ten-man team headed by British doctor Issam Abuanza is alleged to have carried out tests using unknown chemicals on prisoners of the death cult.

Abuanza, 40, is thought to have been helped by Mohammad Anwar Miah, a former pharmacist from Birmingham, to remove prisoners’ organs to be transplanted into wounded jihadis or sold on the black market.

Some of the organs were even put in detainees’ cells just to scare them, it has been alleged.


The British Government believes Abuanza quickly scaled the ranks and was appointed as ‘health minister’ of IS by 2015.

Issam Abuanza is thought to have been made ‘health minister’ of ISIS (Picture: Facebook)

He left his wife and two children behind in Sheffield in 2014 to join the terror group, leaving his family no means to support themselves.



Abuanza is said to have carried out such savage acts of torture that even fighters for the murderous terror group were against it.

It is thought he is now hiding in caves near the village of Baghouz, reports Mail Online.

Allegations of Miah and Abuznza’s roles come from activist group Sound and Picture, whose members have lived under IS control.

Some of the claims have also been backed up by Western intelligence agencies.

Abuanza poses in medical grubs with a holstered handgun (Picture: Facebook)

Miah, 40, who renamed himself Abu Obayda al-Britannia after illegally travelling to IS territory, claims he never swore allegiance to the group.

He says he only left Birmingham in September 2014 to carry out ‘humanitarian work’ and says he spent four years treating only civilians in the town of Mayadin in eastern Syria.

He claimed to work there as an orthopaedic surgeon, learning as he went along, and says he met no other Brits during his time.

However Sound and Picture say he became close with Abuanza after they met in Mayadin in 2015 and said both men shared the nickname Abu Obayda.

Anwar Miah says he is not a danger to the public (Picture: Jamie Wiseman for The Daily Mail)

Miah, who is now being held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, told the Daily Mail in February that he wanted to return to Britain, claiming he ‘never killed or hurt anybody.’

His family declined to comment and Abuanza’s wife Sally could not be found for comment.

On an online bulletin board in April 2006, Abuanza ranted that foreign doctors in Britain were treated like ‘beggars’ and told overseas graduates they would need anti-psychotic drugs to work in the NHS.

He started working at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Rhyl, North Wales in July 2009 and also worked at Scarborough Hospital in North Yorkshire.

He then moved to Sheffield with his family where he reportedly ran an online company selling kaftan dresses.

Fears were raised he could have been funded terrorism as he claimed 100 per cent of his profits were going to Syria.

Abuanza was thought to be the first NHS clinician to join IS and appealed for other western doctors to join the Islamic caliphate.

He once said in an online post that he wished a Jordanian pilot burnt alive by militants had died a slower death.

His sister Najla said in 2016 that his parents would not forgive him.

A member of ISIS waves the terror cult’s flag in Raqqa, Iraq (Picture: Reuters)

Miah was struck off the register as a pharmacist in 2013 for inventing ‘phantom’ employees as a way to exceed EU working hours.



He married a Syrian teenager in Mayadin, who was five months pregnant with his second child when he was detained by Syrian Democratic Forces.

He claims he and his wife tried to leave in the middle of the night in September 2016 with their nine-month-old daughter Mariam.

He says his children are British citizens and would like them to come to the UK with him.

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He added: I am not a danger to the public. But if they feel that I am a danger to the public I am more than happy to enter into any rehabilitation programme.’

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