amisnet | 23/12/2009 |
[Episode 81]
Being a pediatrician in Italy can mean a lot of professional satisfaction as well as continuous choices to be taken in order to be helpful to parents in need of alla nationalities, without breaking the law. As a matter of fact in order to apply for the right to have their children cured all foreigners must prove a residence permit, whose possession is harder and harder to get due to restriction laws made by the Italian government in the last Security Act. “This is an important issue, Italian National Healt Care system and foreign families.” -says Mustafà Qaddourah Rashid, Palestinian doctor born in Harrambla and working in Rome. “Many of them are afraid to come visit a doctor because they don’t have a residence permit, they are not “officially” legal. Many get addressed to me right after their arrival in Rome; they come to me and ask for help and I do my best to support them but off course I cannot go against the law, I have to work in the legal field.”
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amisnet | 23/12/2009 |
[Episode 80]
A group of American women created a grassroot organization which is drawing the media’s attention all over the world thanks to its strong actions and astuteness in comunicating the need to stop the Bush administration from invading Iraq. It was named Codepink and it is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. The effort of its activists will take over 1,000 people from over 40 countries to Gaza on December 27th, who will march with Palestinians in Gaza on December 31 in thee Gaza Freedom March.
One of their strong supporters, Ann Wright, goes into details about the logistic and the reasons which led to the organization of this massive event a year after the Israeli assault to Gaza.
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amisnet | 03/12/2009 |
[Episode 79]
Today we focus on an unprecentented phenomenon which is drawing attention from the media: the incresing misuse of medicines and dependency on drugs, addiction which has rapidly spread throughout Gaza over the last two years. As the population struggles to cope with Israel closing their home to the outside world, the wonky inner political situation, and then the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead, pills such as Tramadol and Toradol - smuggled in through tunnels from Egypt - have provided a welcome escape from reality We interviewed Doctor Eyad Sarraj, managing director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program and asked him to make the picture of what’s happening in Gaza and why.
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