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From Beirut to Jerusalem

£4.99

Hardback
Condition: Good


Publisher's Synopsis This is a first person account of medical work in Beirut's camps by Dr Ang who has been described as "the unsung heroine of Ang is an orthopaedic surgeon who was brought up in Singapore and came to England as a political refugee in 1982 she went to Beirut to help civilian war victims. Almost by chance she ended up working in a hospital run by the Palestinian Red Crescent a hospital inside one of Beirut's refugee was the surgeon on duty during the Sabra-Shatila massacres and then went to Jerusalem to testify before the Karan commission of enquiry into the massacres. On her return to Britain she organized Medical Aid for Palestinians the charity which sent Pauline Cutting to Beirut and herself relieved Pauline after the seige was partially then she has repeatedly returned to Beirut to work in the refugee camps.

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By Swee Chai Ang