Last week, the MSA (Muslim Student Association) presented a $2,280.65 check to Ross PHR. We’ll be using the donation to purchase sutures to send to the Panzi Clinic in the Congo. For more information on our Panzi Clinic project, visit the Projects page.

Join the efforts of the International Physicians for Human Rights and click the links below to send an email to your Senators and and Senators Biden and Leahy.

Africa’s Health Care System Urgently Needs Support
In Sub-Saharan Africa, people are dying unnecessarily because there are simply not enough health care workers. Please join PHR in urging your Senators to support legislation recently introduced in Congress that would help African countries develop a stable health infrastructure.

Urge your Senators to support the African Health Capacity Investment Act

Health Workers in Libya Should Be Released and Exonerated
Take action on the case of six health workers wrongfully convicted of intentionally infecting more than 400 children with HIV in a Libyan hospital.

Urge Senators Biden and Leahy to exert more pressure on Libya

Please join us on Thursday, March 15 at 7 p.m. in Classroom 2A for our first Coffee Talk of this semester: “Where a hospital becomes a war zone.”

We will be watching a movie titled, “Baghdad: A Doctor’s Story,” and discussing it afterwards.

Popcorn will be served. We look forward to seeing you there!

Here is the description:

Baghdad: A Doctor’s Story
Filmed exclusively by an Iraqi doctor, This World reveals the terrible conditions of a civilian emergency room in Baghdad.

Al Yarmouk Hospital is in the most dangerous area of Baghdad.
Sectarian violence is tearing the city apart and ambulance crews go from one dangerous mission to another.
Talking on camera is dangerous, but here patients and doctors speak out.
Wherever they go, the doctor is there with his camera.
“People don’t know what is going on in Iraq,” he says, “they can’t hear the Iraqi people screaming.”
In the constant stream of news reports from Iraq, the voice of ordinary people seems to have been lost.
In this film, we hear from them directly… and get a harrowing insight into everyday life in Baghdad.

For a longer description, visit here.