Dr. Rebar Ahmad (Zandi) was born in 1957 in Helaway village of Erbil. After completing his education, he graduated from the Institute of Health and worked as a physician assistant in Erbil for two years in the Republican Hospital in Erbil.
- In 1981, he joined the Kurdish Socialist Party (PASOK) with his elder brother Brahim Ahmad Zandi.
- He was wounded in 1983 and after receiving initial treatment, he was sent to Iran, then to Syria and then to Europe.
- He has lived in Umeå in northern Sweden since 1984 and resumed his studies. He graduated from medical college and fulfilled his dream of becoming a doctor.
- He worked as a doctor in Umeå, then in Sundsvall, then in Javle, where he completed his medical degree as an Internal Medicine doctor. After a few years, he moved to Stockholm, Sweden.
- In Stockholm, he continued his higher education and received a second doctorate from the Swedish Board of General Medicine and Family Medicine. He worked in several health centers. He worked for several years at Uppsala Academy Hospital in the Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology and the Emergency Department.
- In the mid-2000s, he ran Bromma Health Center in Stockholm.
- In recent years he has worked as a general practitioner and family doctor at Blackberg Health Center in Stockholm
- Dr. Rebar has always helped Kurds living in Stockholm.
- In the early 1990s, he continued his Kurdish struggle with the Kurdistan Doctors Association in Sweden and was a member of the high committee of the association for several years. He has always had a spiritual and physical connection with Kurdistan, especially South Kurdistan. His dream of serving his people encouraged him to establish a hospital in Erbil after the fall of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship with the help of several loyal doctors in Sweden.
- Dr. Rebar has always dreamed of returning to the land of his ancestors and working as a doctor in Erbil at Sardam Hospital, which he founded.
He contracted the coronavirus (COVID-19) while serving as a doctor in a hospital and died after more than 50 days on 12-05-2020.[1]