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Sunday, February 8, 2009
CBS Affiliate WJZ-TV in Baltimore interviews Dr. Labiq and Labib Syed
Jessica Kartalija of WJZ-TV Reports:
As bloodshed continues in the Gaza strip, a team of doctors including two brothers out of Johns Hopkins, travel overseas to provide medical care.
Humanitarian aid supplies intended for some 5,000 wounded Palestinians has repeatedly been confiscated. The Israeli offensive has killed 1,300 Palestinians and left thousands homeless. Doctors Labiq and Labib Syed are part of a team of doctors with the Islamic Medical Association of North America that traveled to the war-torn region.
"Basically the medical system is in despair. It's in collapse. There's no medicines going in, going out," Dr. Labib Syed said.
Syed is an assistant professor of radiology and surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. As a father, he says working with the children hit very close to home.
"There aren't supplies coming in or out, so all the children--any procedure we had to do, we had to do without local anesthetic, even putting sutures in without anesthesia," he said.
When they arrived in Gaza, the team of doctors was divided based on their specialties.
"Only when you are standing at ground zero and you look around can you sort of get the depth of this whole situation," he said. "Even the locals had never witnessed this type of destruction before."
Labiq has hundreds of photos, many from his time spent with orphaned children.
"Speaking and communicating with the children...the stories that were coming out were stories that I could barely make up with my imagination and they're talking about their realities," Labiq said.
The doctors say, politics aside, something needs to be done quickly to save the thousands of children.
"The most important thing that we would like to bring out is that there's a humanitarian crisis," Labib said.
The doctors had also assisted with hurricane relief efforts in the Dominican Republic.
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