Israel a role model for disaster medicine, says Red Cross chief surgeon

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Given where Israel is located, surrounded by people who want to destroy her, the Israelis had better be good in emergency medicine.


Israel a role model for disaster medicine, says Red Cross chief surgeon
Harald Veen: ‘Israelis have the knowledge and experience’ to excel in emergencies
BY DAVID SHAMAH April 20, 2016, 5:48 pm

Israeli soldiers establish a field hospital together with the Nepalese army, in Nepal, following the deadly earthquake. on April 29, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson)
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As far as Dr. Harald Veen is concerned, the International Committee of the Red Cross is apolitical and is strictly all about business – the business of saving lives.

“Medicine is neutral and must remain so,” Veen told The Times of Israel. “There are groups with agendas who try to frame field work and emergency care in a context that advances their agenda, but it is the job of doctors and emergency care workers to ignore those agendas and concentrate on saving people.”


Veen, the chief surgeon of the ICRC, was in Israel last week for an international conference on “Surgical Management in Austere Environments,” where he described his experiences all over the world in battlefield and mass emergency medicine.

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Israel a role model for disaster medicine, says Red Cross chief surgeon