SYNOPSIS
In March 2011 the civil war in Syria broke out. To date, there have been over 250,000 deaths and over half the country has been internally or externally displaced. Since Feb 2013 over 2000 severely wounded Syrians have crossed the border into Israel. Most of the children have come to Ziv Hospital in Tzfat in Israel’s far north, where Michael Harari works as a paediatrician. They have posed unique medical, social, emotional and political challenges. Michael will talk of his experience in dealing with these issues, and some of the medical lessons learnt along the way.

SPEAKERS
Michael Harari FRACP trained at RCH and has worked for many years as a paediatrician at RCH in departments of General Medicine, Emergency, Continence and ICU. He has also worked for many years in the PNG highlands, the UK, and Israel. He left RCH 5 years ago to work in a small rural hospital, in the far north of Israel, where nothing much ever happens.