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When Your Neighbor is Okay, You’re Okay: Neonatology and Syrian Refugees in Lebanon :

December 8, 2015

In October, 2014 at the Best of IPOKRaTES (http://ipokrates.info/about-ipokrates/ipokrates-foundation/) conference in Leuven, Belgium, I had the opportunity to meet and have dinner with Drs. Gaby Falakha and Antoun AbdelAhad, both neonatologists from Lebanon.

In October, 2014 at the Best of IPOKRaTES (http://ipokrates.info/about-ipokrates/ipokrates-foundation/) conference in Leuven, Belgium, I had the opportunity to meet and have dinner with Drs. Gaby Falakha and Antoun AbdelAhad, both neonatologists from Lebanon.

We discussed the effects of the Syrian war and the impact of the large number of Syrian refugees on their practice of neonatology. I thought it would be an outstanding opportunity for Gaby and Antoun to share their experiences by writing a piece for NeoReviews.

The resulting International Perspective column in NeoReviews represents some of their experiences at the Hopital Notre Dame de la Paix, in Akkar, North Lebanon.

In their article, Drs. Falakha, AbdelAhad, and their colleagues Ghaiss Makhoul and Carole Naufal Makhoul compare data from the Lebanese population to those of Syrian refugees and discuss the dramatic impact of the refugee influx on their practice, beginning by referencing the Arabic saying: “When your neighbor is okay, then you’re okay.”

 

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