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Gripping accounts of medical workers who volunteer to serve in some of the world's most dangerous hotspots. The humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, (also known as Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and those who lack reliable health care. Each year, more than 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses, and other professionals join locally-hired staff to provide medical aid in more than eighty countries. At the forefront are the volunteer doctors who risk their lives to perform surgery, establish or rehabilitate hospitals and clinics, run nutrition and sanitation programs, and train local medical personnel. This book follows these volunteer doctors as they risk their health and lives to treat patients in desperate need. Combining engaging text with dramatic color photographs from around the world, Hope in Hell examines the lives of individual MSF volunteer medical professionals. Topics include: Performing emergency surgery in the war torn regions of Africa and Asia Understanding cultural customs and societal differences that affect health care Witnessing and reporting genocidal atrocities. Also, the most recent world events are explored and how MSF is reacting to them. These include the challenges of delivering aid during the Rwandan massacre and the controversial decision to criticize the U.S. for delivering humanitarian aid to Afghan citizens while at war. The book also covers the raucous founding of Doctors Without Borders in 1971 as the first non-governmental organization to both provide emergency medical assistance and publicly bear witness to the plight of the populations they served. In 1999, the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Hope in Hell is a fascinating and often harrowing account of the men and women who struggle to improve the lives of people in desperate need.
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Firefly Books; 1 edition (October 2, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1552978656
ISBN-13: 978-1552978658
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #205,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #20 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Public Affairs & Policy > Non-Governmental Organizations #49 in Books > Business & Money > Job Hunting & Careers > Volunteer Work #65 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Physician & Patient
This book centers on countless medical humanitarians working in unsafe occupied countries, all because people (many times a mass majority) who have become victims are in need of grave medical care: Medical care which is not granted to them by their government. The giving of medical care is the intention of these organizations. It all started with a group from France called 'Medecins Sans Frontieres', and branched out to Doctors Without Borders, ect.In so many cases, medical care givers with all types of skills are needed for victim survival--those who have been exposed to and are surviving the aftermath of war and other types of social conflict. Much of the time survivers soon turn into refugees, all living amongst one another, and that is when, what seems like the smallest health problem, quickly explodes into an epidemic of huge proportion for thousands of people.Medical teams do their best to train the people of these communities for aiding with safe and proper medical care. While there, a health clinic is opened to treat all ailments, so any community members who are interested in learning are welcome to watch and learn for the future when they are on their own.In many countries,(at very young ages) soldiers are recruited and become disfuntionally ruthless and barbaric. Their hearts are infultrated with hatred, and their minds are impaired with the local drug and/or alcohol of choice. This is a lethal combination which adds more fuel to the fire in places where the average person's life has already been significantly altered by these dispicable soldiers who are dictated to continue on inflicting inhumane autrocities.Please read the book.
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