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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:24:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Vise <[log in to unmask]>

Report back from Gaza - Health and Medical Conditions under Israeli
Occupation

Presentation and Discussion by Suvendrini Lena

When:             Wednesday, October 2, 2002 @ 7:30pm

Where:            Toronto Women's Bookstore
         73 Harbord Street (Harbord @ Spadina, 2 blocks South of Bloor

In August 2002, Suvendrini Lena visited Palestine in order to understand
and document health effects of Israeli occupation and to help lay the
foundation for a subsequent North American tour by Palestinian physicians
and other healthcare workers from the Union of Health Workers at Al-Awda
in Gaza.

The talk and slide presentation is on health effects of the occupation in
the Gaza Strip. She focuses particularly on the experience of children and
families living in the numerous buffer zones between camps and
settlements.  She also looks at the economic basis for the epidemic
malnutrition in Gaza and the long-term consequences of this, and will
cover the acute and long-term psychological consequences of perpetual
violence, and the use of torture, against Palestinian children and
families.

Suvendrini is also interested in meeting with individuals and community
groups to talk about sponsoring a North American Tour of Palestinian
physicians and healthcare workers in February 2003.

Suvendrini Lena is a MD/PhD student at the University of British Columbia,
in Vancouver. As a medical student she is committed to the concept that
access to health care is a human right.  Additionally she believes that
health care professionals have a particular duty to draw attention to the
impacts of war and violence on the physical and mental health of
individuals and whole communities.

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