Lab skills training for Gaza docs
GAZA – Medical specialists in the Malaysian humanitarian aid mission now in Gaza are to conduct a two-day basic laboratory skills training for 60 Palestinian doctors.
The training, to be conducted by a group of doctors led by emergency specialist Dr Rishya Manikam of the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), will be held at the Al-Amal Hospital for 30 doctors and at the Al-Quds Hospital for the other 30.
Dr Rishya said the course, from 9am to 4pm, would cover training in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Focused Abdominal Sonography for Trauma (FAST) and Trauma Life Support.
He said he found that doctors at the Khan Younis Hospital, where he and nine other doctors of the group were stationed, did not know how to use the mannequins donated to them for use in emergency and trauma.
“We decided to conduct the laboratory skills training after getting the approval of Dr Wael, director of the Khan Younis Hospital,” he said.
Dr Rishya is among 35 doctors who have joined the mission, organised by the Putera 1Malaysia Club in collaboration with the Malaysian Red Crescent Society for two weeks beginning Aug 8.
Besides stationing the Malaysian volunteer doctors in hospitals and clinics in the region of conflict, the aid mission headed by Putera 1Malaysia Club president Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim is also distributing food, clothing, blankets and medicine to 2,000 families in several settlements in Gaza.
Earlier, the mission distributed clothes, blankets and dried foodstuff in conjunction with Ramadan and Aidilfitri celebrations at the hospital to some 300 people.
The patients and those receiving aid were amazed by the the multi-racial group of Malaysian volunteers.
Source: The Star
