Saturday, January 16, 2010

Haiti: Strange behavior for doctors (Update)

I turned in CNN-TV just in time to hear Dr. Sanjay Gupta telling show host Wolf Blitzer that doctors at the make-shift hospital he was visiting just got message to pack up their equipment and leave. Dr. Gupta was not able to give Wolfe answers to the several questions he was asking as to reasons why the doctors were leaving. Dr. Gupta did, however, manage to say they got orders from the UN to vacate immediately due to the fact there was impending danger. A UN truck was already waiting to pick up the doctors and the equipment.

Later on this evening on the Anderson Cooper Show, I saw Dr. Gupta alone in the make-shift tent hospital with no medical resources tending about twenty five patients.

For a group of doctors to suddenly abandon an assignment they were sent to participate in is, in my opinion, downright weird! That is, of course, if they were REAL doctors. I wonder as I wander……
As always,
BB
P.S. I hope Dr. Gupta’s heroic deed is appropriately addressed by Pres. Obama and the Congress.

(Update) On a special show Sunday, Dr. Gupta informed us Dr. Gert Gijs, head of the Belgian team of doctors who abandoned the site, confessed to making the decision to leave by his lonesome. He was not ordered to do so by the UN. Also, I understand the time-frame is closing for nominations for the Nobel Peace Awards. I hope someone in the right position would submit the names of Dr. Gupta, Anderson Cooper and CNN for their coverage of the Earthquake in Haiti with love.

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