A fifteen member volunteer medical team left last night for the Congo, the Foreign Ministry announced today. The group was seen off at the airport by Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister.
The team, headed by Avner Goor, chief sanitary engineer and epidemiologist of the Health Ministry, included pediatricians, surgeons, gynecologists, an anesthetist, pharmacist, and laboratory technician, nurses and operating theatre attendants.
The team was also accompanied by Dr. R. Greshbin, chairman of the Israel Medical Association and director of the Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Dr. Greshbin will advise the Congolese government on general medical matters and health organization in the current Congolese emergency.
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