Canadian Health Workers Condemn Colleagues Serving In Israeli Military

 

“Genocide is a significant and an extreme public health catastrophe.”

A group of health-care workers is calling on professional regulators to investigate Canadian doctors and other health-care workers who have served with Israel’s military during its war in Gaza, which the UN has called genocidal.

“Any individual who is a part of the Israeli Defense Force should never be allowed to be anywhere among women and children, and especially Muslim or Arab children,” said Mukarram Zaidi, a physician in Calgary and member of the Canadian Muslim Healthcare Network.

Health Workers Alliance for Palestine (HAP) published its statement earlier this month condemning health-care workers who have served in the Israeli military, saying they undermine public trust in their professions. Twenty-eight groups, including the Canadian Muslim Healthcare Network, signed the statement.

“Patients and learners, especially Palestinians, have every reason to be alarmed and to refuse care and supervision by [health-care workers] and educators with ties to the Israeli military,” HAP said.

“The participation of [health-care workers] in acts that violate human rights is a serious concern. Such acts are explicitly prohibited by the Canadian Medical Association’s Code of Ethics and Professionalism, to which many provincial medical regulatory bodies subscribe.”

“The code clearly emphasizes that physicians should ‘never participate in or support practices that violate basic human rights’ and should ‘never participate in or condone the practice of torture or any form of cruel, inhumane, or degrading procedure.’”  (more...)

Canadian Health Workers Condemn Colleagues Serving In Israeli Military

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