THE AMERICAN MEDICAL MISSION TO GAZA (AMMG) AIMS TO REPORT THE HUMANITARIAN AND MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS OF AMERICAN DOCTORS TRAVELING TO THE GAZA STRIP. THE AMMG DOES NOT ADVOCATE POLITICAL ACTION OR ESPOUSE POLITICAL VIEWS.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Drs. Shariq Sayeed and Saeed Akthar on Free Speech News

Free Speech Radio's Aya Batrawy reports


The recent 23-day long Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip left an already strangled health care system struggling to survive. Doctors in the Gaza Strip are fraught with outdated equipment and are running dangerously low on medicine – as patients fight just to stay alive. In the second part of a series on Gaza's medical infrastructure, FSRN's Aya Batrawy reports.

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