How a doctor treated Palestinian victims of Israeli torture, with Sarah Lalonde

Dr. Sarah Lalonde, a Canada-based emergency and family physician, recently returned from working in Gaza at the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis. Along with local physicians, she treated some of the released Palestinian prisoners who were tortured in Israeli detention.

“We saw broken bones that were broken at different moments and did not have the appropriate care to be able to heal in the right way,” she told The Electronic Intifada Podcast.

“We saw people who had conditions that had happened during prison, like, for example, a stroke, and then they had a loss of mobility on one side of their body and it was not treated. We saw people who had not gotten their medication that they needed. We saw people who had skull fractures that had healed but had not received medical attention.”

Lalonde explained that there were several prisoner cases that stuck with her.

Read more here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/how-doctor-treated-palestinian-victims-israeli-torture

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