2024-03-03 from theglobeandmail.com
On Feb. 24, Amy Potter, an emergency room nurse from Thunder Bay, returned from a one-month assignment with Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Khan Younis and Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost point. She spoke about her experiences with freelance journalist Claire Porter Robbins, who worked for the same MSF mission in 2022.
What kind of facilities were you working in?
When I first arrived, we couldn’t find a structure or tent materials, so we ended up working out of the back of two trucks, seeing about 450 patients a day. This was tough because obviously the truck was ill-equipped, we had no running water or power.
Eventually, the team and I were able to set up a temporary primary-care clinic in an under-construction building near the Egyptian border to continue to serve the large internally displaced population living there. We were able to power the building with solar panels and we had running water. In three weeks, we saw more than 7,100 patients in that makeshift clinic.
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