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Pomegranates may be key in preventing and treating Alzheimer’s • Earth.com… | for much deliberation

Source: Pomegranates may be key in preventing and treating Alzheimer’s • Earth.com… | for much deliberation

मौन प्रभाव / Silent Impact

कोई शोर मचा सुर्खियों में  आने को रहता है तत्पर… और कोई तहलका मचा है  देता जग में मौन रहकर… सच्चा प्रभाव हमारे कर्मों में  ही मिलता है… न शोरगुल में,…

मौन प्रभाव / Silent Impact

RDP Monday: Grain | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

Our little village is in the middle of farming land. The grain grows on the fields. it grows and ripens and eventually some time in Autumn it is harvested. Growing up in London, this was certainly something completely different for me, but I just love it. The smells of agriculture, the noise and everything to do with it.

RDP Monday: Grain

Source: RDP Monday: Grain | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

‘Nothing justifies what we have witnessed here’: the doctors returning home from Gaza | Gaza | The Guardian

…The foreign doctors worked alongside Palestinian doctors, many of whom were themselves displaced and living in tents outside the hospital. A key part of the mission is to teach and train local medical staff and students.

“The Palestinian medical students are the real heroes,” says Tahir. “They have had their universities destroyed and flock to us for any knowledge we can impart that may help them, help others. They are young volunteers, who aren’t getting paid, but turn up to work every day, trying desperately to prop up a failing health system because the world has failed them.”

One day, the doctors say they visited the sites of the destroyed Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals, where the mass graves of hundreds of Palestinians were recently discovered, many stripped naked with their hands tied, according to reports published by the UN human rights office.

“It was apocalyptic,” says Dr Laura Swoboda, a wound care specialist from Wisconsin. “The sheer destruction was unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Decomposing bodies still stuck beneath the rubble. All around us, we could smell death.”

As she walked among the debris, Swoboda says she saw overturned ambulances and a burned-out dialysis centre; medical supplies scattered everywhere and the sound of black body bags flapping in the wind. “There were notes scribbled on the walls of theatre rooms by doctors who had been hiding there,” says Swoboda. “And then in the rubble, I came across a human finger. It was like a horror movie.”

When Dr Ahlia Kattan and her husband Dr Sameer Khan decided to join the mission, their parents offered to babysit. After months of seeing horrific videos of injured and dead Palestinian children on their social media feeds, the couple from California were left wondering, what if these children had been their own…

Source: ‘Nothing justifies what we have witnessed here’: the doctors returning home from Gaza | Gaza | The Guardian