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Innovative Strong Food program handed over to Afghanis

November 12th, 2009 | Comments Off

Innovative Strong Food program handed over to Afghanis

This is an amazing story and ought to have been covered in detail by the main stream media. When it came to facing the issue of malnutrition, a local Afghani public heath administrator provided the team with a starting point. Dr. Zamarai Sultan, the Qalat public health administrator, shared some information with Doctor Arnold about a product he knew of that had been used in other countries like Africa. Based on this starting point, Doctor Arnold … Read entire article »

Filed under: Afghanistan, Medicine, Rebuilding, War on Terror

All It Takes to Make a Difference

August 25th, 2008 | Comments Off

In a country where the reality is that parents will have to bury one of their children before the age of 5, members of a coalition provincial reconstruction team at Zabul, Afghanistan, are working to reverse this staggering trend. After two Air Force medical professionals spent some time on the ground in Southeastern Afghanistan, they came to a conclusion — providing clinical medical care for locals was just a band-aid solution for three major issues plaguing the country. So they made the decision to take a step back and think outside of the box for solutions. Capt. (Dr.) James Arnold and Capt. Tim Harrelson, physician assistant, have been hard at work looking for ways they could step beyond clinic care traditionally provided by provincial reconstruction team medics. The two were determined to … Read entire article »

Filed under: Afghanistan, Medicine, Rebuilding, War on Terror