ebrei contro l'occupazione

British Medical Journal, 7 Oct 2009

The Israeli Medical Association needs to take well documented allegations of torture by doctors in Israel seriously

I contrasted the powerful position statement on torture posted on the IMA’s website with the failure of that body to respond to allegations in a report, published in May 2007, by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. The report comprised detailed testimonies of nine torture victims and included names of medical personnel involved in their management in prison or referral hospitals, several of the personnel being IMA members. The reasons for medical involvement varied, but the report included an account by a 29 year old man with a sacral ulcer. During his interrogation, he was intermittently tied over a four day period with all of his limbs arched back over a chair with a sharp edge to the seat. His testimony recounted visits to a hospital where he was examined, and after the intervention of his guards the doctors prescribed analgesics and returned him to prison. Six weeks later he was referred to a different hospital for investigation of the permanent foot drop that had subsequently developed.

 

il Manifesto, 1 ottobre 2009, I pagina

STATI UNITI
Ma perché milioni di americani non invadono Washington per reclamare quella riforma sanitaria che da 60 anni i democratici promettono e mai riescono a realizzare? Perché non scende in piazza almeno uno su venti di quei 45 milioni di statunitensi che non hanno copertura sanitaria? E perché non sfilano con loro gli altri milioni strangolati dalle polizze delle compagnie di assicurazione? La domanda si fa urgente di fronte all'ultimo sgambetto che martedì i senatori democratici «moderati» hanno inferto a questo progetto, bocciando la «public option», cioè la creazione di un servizio pubblico nazionale.