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Nowhere to Run

£15.00

In Nowhere to Run, Dr. Suheal A. Khan, Founder and Director of MIST (Mobile International Surgical Teams) shares his experiences in the Gaza Strip, the site of an unending and brutal war, and the effects of the conflict. This memoir discusses the living conditions, the working conditions, the injuries, the patients, the medical treatments, Khan’s teaching and training, and the human factor of the war. With a host of photos included, Nowhere to Run offers a unique insight into the Gaza Strip following the war with Israel in 2008-2009 from a humanitarian’s point of view.

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In Nowhere to Run,  Dr. Suheal A. Khan, Founder and Director of MIST (Mobile International Surgical Teams) shares his experiences in the Gaza Strip, the site of an unending and brutal war, and the effects of the conflict.
Six weeks after the initial attack on the Gaza Strip in December 2008 by the Israeli army, Dr. Suheal A. Khan and two others arrived as part of a medical team; they are all members of the MiST Foundation (Mobile International Surgical Teams), of which he was the founder. Suheal is a Trauma Surgeon with expertise in limb reconstruction using external fixation devices. They had brought enough medical equipment from the UK to treat twenty patients.