[dehai-news] (RM) Physicians for Peace Volunteers Launch Medical Mission to Eritrea


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From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 15:49:26 EDT


News from Physicians for Peace
 
For more information contact: Cliff Bryant, 757-625-7569
 
Physicians for Peace Volunteers Launch Medical Mission to Eritrea,
Africa
Healers Will Help Children Walk Again
 
NORFOLK, VA (09/04/2008; 1443)(readMedia)-- A team of Physicians for
Peace volunteer medical professionals will be in Eritrea, Africa from
Sept. 5-21, conducting reconstructive surgeries for adults and young
patients for foot deformities brought about by diseases such as polio,
or due to accident. The team will also evaluate and screen new patients
for future visits by Physicians for Peace volunteers. In addition,
pursuant to the mission of Physicians for Peace, team members will train
in-country medical professionals in the latest podiatric surgical
techniques, helping to expand care and healing in this impoverished
African nation.
 
Team members are:
 
. Christopher Walters, MD - Centerville, VA
 
. Grant L Beck, MD - Clifton, VA
 
. Annie Xu, MD - Arlington, VA
 
. Margaret A. Halstead, RN - Clarksville, MD
 
This mission is a continuation of the Physicians for Peace's
well-established medical education and clinical care program in Eritrea.
The team leader, Dr. Chris Walters, has participated in many of the
previous surgical missions to Eritrea. The current mission will conduct
also follow-up on patients that were evaluated and screened during a
March 2008 surgical mission, under the leadership of Physicians for
Peace volunteer Dr. Keith Goss, of Shipwreck, NM.
 
"These surgical missions are part of continuing efforts to train
Eritrean surgeons in advanced surgical techniques and develop indigenous
medical capacity in Eritrea and Sub-Saharan Africa," noted Physicians
for Peace Director of Medical Programs Jaya Tiwari. "These surgical
missions also enhance our ongoing Surgical Residency Program at the
Orotta School of Medicine, which was launched in January 2008 in
partnership with The George Washington University Medical Center and the
Eritrean Ministry of Health."
 
ABOUT PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE
 
Physicians for Peace is an international private voluntary organization
that mobilizes healthcare educators to assist developing nations with
unmet medical needs and scarce resources. Through effective, hands-on
medical education and training, clinical care and donated medical
supplies, Physicians for Peace creates long-term, sustainable,
replicable, and evidence-based projects to help partner nations build
medical capability and capacity to help themselves. Volunteers for the
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization have conducted medical missions in more
than 50 countries. More information is available at
www.physiciansforpeace.org.
 
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