HUMANITARIAN
MISSION TO BURJ AL BARAJNEH
APRIL 22 – 28, 2007
Sharaf Ibrahim
Kamil Mohd Kasim
Our mission is in collaboration with the Palestine Children’s
Relief Fund (PCRF) to help with paediatric orthopaedics and
hand surgery in Haifa Hospital, Burj Al Barajneh. Haifa Hospital
is run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and has
45 beds with 35 doctors and 45 nurses. Burj Al Barajneh in
South Beirut is a 4 square km Palestinian refugee camp and
is home to between 25 000 to 30 000 people.
We reviewed 50 patients in the preoperative clinic, mostly
children who came from Palestinian camps all over Lebanon.
Nuha Masri of the PCRF, Malaysian nurse, Mariam Pok, who lives
in Burj Al Barajneh, Haifa Hospital orthopaedic surgeons,
Dr Ismail and Dr Mustafa were with us in the clinic.
We had patients with cerebral palsy, intoeing gait, osteochondritis
of the distal tibial epiphysis, recurrence of carpal tunnel
syndrome, clubfeet, muscular dystrophy, fibula hemimelia,
Perthes disease, malunion of the distal radius with ulnar
nerve entrapment, hemiplegia due to gunshot injury to the
brain, malunion of the ankle, ligamentous injury of the wrist
and extensor tendon injury of the hand. A few patients did
not turn up for surgery while 1 child was cancelled due to
a respiratory tract infection. The operations performed were
tendo Achilles lengthening for muscular dystrophy, adductor
and hamstring releases for 2 patients with cerebral palsy
and a revision carpal tunnel release.
To help a Palestinian child, contact the Malaysian Sociological
Research Institute [ http://www.msri.org.my/]
for details.
Main
Page | Who
We Are | Children
Treated
| Healing
Hearts Campaign
|
Child
Sponsorship Program
Women's Empowerment Project |
Emergency
Relief Projects
| PCRF
Chapters |
PCRF
Summer Camps
PCRF Personnel | PCRF
in the News | Volunteer
| Donate
Now | Contact
us? | Links
