Thursday 18 March 2010

Bridge Airlifts Medical supplies To Afghanistan

Afghan Aid (ITV Report )
A doctor from London is organising an airlift of medical supplies to  Afghanistan, where she's setting up a clinic in a women's prison. Some of the  supplies stockpiled by Karen Woo come from British hospitals... which would  usually destroy them if they weren't used.
Doctor Woo quit her job here in London so she could work in the war-torn  country. Thanks to her efforts and those of her organisation, called "Bridge  Afghanistan", forty pallets of medical supplies will be landing in the Afghan  capital, Kabul, later this week
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BRIDGE AFGHANISTAN IN BMA NEWS

Associate medical director Karen Woo (pictured) has swapped a comfortable job with private healthcare firm BUPA for aid work and film-making in Afghanistan.

Currently in Kabul making a documentary and delivering medical supplies collected in the UK, Dr Woo told 'BMA News' she was ‘flat broke and living in a war zone’ but enjoying helping people in great need. On graduating from medical school, she commenced surgical training before joining BUPA.

She now works for medical evacuations company Remote Medical Solutions International, and is leading Bridge Afghanistan — a non-profit organisation delivering, and making a documentary about, aid in the country. For more details about donating medical supplies or funds to Bridge Afghanistan, contact THE BRIDGE AFGHANISTAN
DR KAREN WOO AND FIRUZ RAHIMI at bridge150@gmail.com

Read the BMA News by clicking here