Professor Taleb Mourad, born in the town of Sidi Bel-Abbès on December 11, 1928. He spent his entire schooling in his hometown. After graduating from high school, he went to France to begin medical studies. After a stint in Dijon, he returned to Lyon. He arrived in Tunisia on orders from the FLN in 1956. He remained at the border until the end of the war. With whatever resources he had, he participated in the care of the “Djounouds” evacuated to the eastern base. At the same time, he continued his training with Tunisian doctors and practitioners.

From the day after Independence, he invested himself, body and soul, in the establishment of an efficient health system in his country. From the eastern border where he spent the period of the National Liberation War, he found himself directly in Batna where he had opened the hospital of this city. Immediately after, he returned to Oran where with a small number of his companions he tried to restart the Oran University Hospital, deserted by French doctors. The task was not easy because he had to be on several fronts: respond to an ever-growing demand, participate in the training of medical staff and, above all, complete his own training, interrupted in 1956 to join the ranks of the ALN. Therefore, it was necessary, with the complicity of some of his comrades in the struggle, to set up a surgical pavilion. It is to him that the Oran University Hospital owes the pavilion bearing the number 14.