A settlement doctor reaches out to his Palestinian neighbors
“Everyone in Wadi Nis knows me,” he said, navigating his way through the village’s bumpy alleyways. “There’s almost not a family here I haven’t treated; many children whose lives I’ve saved. From day one I saw it as an important value to help the Palestinians in the towns around us.”
Through the Efrat Emergency Medical Center, an evening clinic, Glick provides Palestinians from the area with two types of service: emergency care, and consultations from volunteer specialists he invites. These specialists are either residents of Efrat — a community of 8,000 boasting around 250 doctors — or Jerusalem hospital physicians who come in several times a month for a few hours of pro bono work.
“If I know that I need a urologist, an orthopedist or a hand surgeon, I’ll touch base with them and say: ‘Can you come down to our clinic and take a look at so and so?’”
Glick estimated that an average of five Palestinians are treated in his Efrat clinic every week, approximately 10 percent of the clinic’s total patient population. The Palestinian patients must coordinate their entry ahead of time with the settlement’s security gate, which was erected at the onset of the Second Intifada in 2000.
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