Guest blog by Gerri Haynes: Delegates put expertise to good use in besieged Gaza | Looking for Trouble
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Guest blog by Gerri Haynes: Delegates put expertise to good use in besieged Gaza | Looking for Trouble
Guest blog by Gerri Haynes: Delegates put expertise to good use in besieged Gaza | Looking for Trouble Looking for Trouble News and opinion on international affairs by Larry Johnson Home About Contact Samples of published work: Syria sinking in flood of refugees from Iraq P-I Focus: Independent-minded youth hold future of Taiwan in their hands Wars unintended effects: use of depleted uranium weapons lingers as health concern A Trip to Baghdad Reveals a Nation Sagging Under the Weight of Sanctions Resume Guest blog by Gerri Haynes: Delegates put expertise to good use in besieged Gaza As she did last year, Gerri has organized a Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility delegation of doctors and other health care providers to work in hospitals and clinics in Gaza in an effort to directly help the people there and to bring attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis that the Israeli blockade has created. She will be sending back reports from inside the Israeli blockade. Members of our delegation continue to work in their areas of experience. Howard Putter has been working with other orthopedic surgeons at Al Shifa Hospital. He has seen traffic trauma (the traffic in Gaza is the stuff of legend – there are no traffic lights for the heavy car and cart traffic and children play in and around the streets) and old war injuries. Attending orthopedists and a resident staff provide care equipment and supplies are needed, but difficult to get during these years of siege. David Hall taught an enthusiastically-received class on psychotherapy for psychologists, nurses and social workers this morning at the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme Center http://www.gcmhp.net/. Working through a series of translators, the discussion was spirited. David Hall visits a patient at home. (Bob Haynes photo)The level of psychological trauma here makes care giving complicated. Traumatized professionals have to find ways to care for themselves so that they may c ontinue to provide care – this is true in every medical di! scipline . We a...
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