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Israeli doctors in Congo to aid burn victims get slammed for occupation Baby saves mother from blood clot, at Sheba Israeli doctors are first foreign specialists to treat victims of Congo oil blast Sheba's Prof. Eli Schwartz pens new book on travelers and tropical diseases Sheba scientists: Teen-age Boys Have Greater Risk Than Girls Of High Blood Pressure As Adults Sheba's Prof. Achiron Preempts Multiple Sclerosis Sheba doctors: Experimental treatment successful in half of melanoma cases Houston forges cancer research links with Israel Israelis find MS signs that appear years before symptoms Israeli team reports on return from 10-day Haiti mission Sheba Proposes Establishment of Haitian-Israeli Rehabilitation Center in Haiti Born-again Zionist supermodel British Medical Journal Discrimnates Against Sheba Sheba and M. D. Anderson Sign Cooperation Agreement in Cancer Treatment and Research Sheba Medical center teams up with University of Texas Sheba's Colonel Dr. Itzik Kreiss Commands the Israeli Field Hospital in Haiti Five Sheba Doctors on Humanitarian Mission in Haiti Sheba Medical Research Offers New Hope for Treating Childhood Leukemia

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Israeli medical team saves sight in Myanmar Prof. Jacob Lavee's New Organ Donor Prioritization Plan Adopted into Law, and Draws International Attention Sheba's Prof. Raphi Walden Awarded the French Legion of Honor Israeli Researchers Make Significant Progress in Heart Tissue Engineering Sheba's Dr. Jacob Kuint and colleagues find that postpartum depression negatively affects infant development Sheba's Dr. Shai Izraeli discovers novel alternative to chemotherapy for children with leukemia Sheba, NYU researchers to draw genetic map of wandering Jew A new school of thought: A plan to open the country's fifth medical school brings opportunities to re-think doctor training Sarah Ferber of Sheba in Israel shows that potentially, patients with diabetes can be donors of their own therapeutic tissue Study shows why simple carbs are bad for you Study traces high carb link to heart attacks In pursuit of a happiness gene Using PlayStation to heal severe burn trauma Israel, PA and Jordan cooperate as flu threat grows Babies given transfusions in the womb do well Decrease In Sense Of Smell Seen In Lupus Patients Sheba Doctor Publishes Inflammatory Breast Cancer Drug Advance Sheba's Prof. Mordechai Shani to be Awarded Israel's Top Award: "The Israel Prize" for Lifetime Achievement The Last Soldier Goes Home Keep on giving: U.S. donor not deterred by financial downturn Israel's first center for child abuse victims opens at Sheba Medical Center Innovative cardiac valve prosthesis developed at Sheba Higher A1C Levels Linked to Lower Brain Function: Study Published by the American Diabetes Association Suggests Lowering A1C Levels Could Reduce Decline in Cognitive Function Gaza War Update II from Sheba Medical Center IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi at Sheba: "I Thank Sheba for its Remarkable and Irreplaceable Work on Behalf of the Nation and its Soldiers!"Medical Update on the Gaza War 'Not all Israelis are bad': Eight-year-old Palestinian cancer patient treated near Tel Aviv grateful to Israeli doctors

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Collected stories from around the world... Paralysed man walks again thanks to Robocop-style exoskeleton Dogs may help lower children's blood pressure War Between The Sexes Begins Before Twins' Birth, Sheba Researcher Says SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN features Sheba's Prof. Yoni Leor: Repairing Hearts with Seaweed Burnt "Miracle Girl" Undergoes Unique Skin Growth Treatment at Sheba Police commander who lost leg visits wounded Sderot boy Sheba study links protracted cellphone use with tumors Dr. Siegal Sadetzki of Sheba: Heavy Cell Phone Use Linked To Cancer New York Times: 2 Boys, 2 Sides, 2 Beds in an Israeli Hospital Ward (Sheba)Injured Sderot Boys Transferred to Sheba for Treatment MDA enters Ramallah to save Palestinian baby

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Sheba Hematologist Prof. Uri Seligson awarded the Prestigious Robert P. Grant Medal from the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis Laughter Therapy at Sheba: Laughter is Contagious — Cancer Isn't The Way the Wheel Turns An Unsimulated Success World Leading Cancer Researcher Prof. Steven Rosenberg Visits the Sheba Cancer Center The BioLineRx Drug Development Company Seeks to Begin Clinical Trials of an Implant Developed at Sheba to Treat Damaged Heart Tissue Sheba inaugurates lipid treatment center Sheba Dedicates the New Bert W. Strassburger Lipid Center Sheba Doctor says: Type 2 Diabetes Takes Toll on Teens Founder of medical simulation center receives Humanitarian Award Bronfman Prize-winner Dr. Amitai Ziv from Sheba honored in New York Israeli founder of simulation center changing the nature of medical training

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Israeli doctors are first foreign specialists to treat victims of Congo oil blast

Date07/13/2010

AuthorCnaan Liphshiz

SourceHaaretz

Government agency sends 4 doctors and a nurse from the Sheba Medical Center to the area surrounding the village of Sange in eastern Congo

Bujumbura, Burundi - Two weeks after the death of more than 200 people in an oil tanker explosion in Congo, Israeli doctors will be the first specialists sent to treat the dozens of burn victims who survived the blast.

Congolese President Joseph Kabila telephoned the Israeli delegation to the region to thank its members on Monday night, but activist said it was too limited in scope to make a lasting impact.

On Monday, the Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MASHAV, sent four doctors and a nurse from Sheba Medical Center to the area surrounding the village of Sange in eastern Congo, where a truck carrying hundreds of kilotons of petroleum caught fire last Friday.

“We’re carrying half a ton of equipment to treat 30 injured in two locales,” said Dr. Eyal Winkler, deputy director of Sheba’s department of plastic and reconstructive Surgery. With Winkler are Drs. Shmuel Kalazkin, Ariel Tessone and Gil Gragov Nardini, and nurse Noa Anastasia Ouchakova.

The new arrivals will be working with a U.S.-born Israeli woman who lives in Congo and works with the foreign ministry, Gila Garawy. She says not all the patients are receiving anesthetics in the rural hospitals where they are treated, where electricity and running water are unreliable.

“When I came to visit them I could see their eyes light up with hope because they mistook me for the doctor from Israel they’d been expecting,” said Garaway, whose two sons live in Israel with her seven grandchildren. She also said that she had seen cases in which burn victims became “psychotic from pain.”

Jean-Michel Bolima, a social activist who was born in the eastern Congo city of Kisangani, said: “Any help is welcome and important, but we want to see actions that benefit more people than 31. This is a limited operation. Israel is always first to offer aid, and this is admirable. But it is not constructing a hospital there. Yet this would have made a serious impact on people’s lives.”

Haim Divon, head of Masahv, said that the agency has been supporting Gila Garawy in her efforts over the past year to open a burn-treatment center in Bukavu, near the village of Sange.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-doctors-are-first-foreign-specialists-to-treat-victims-of-congo-oil-blast-1.301553