Canadians run Kosovo clinics
CMAJ 2000;162:1188
Captain Tom Hurley, medical officer with the Royal Canadian Regiment, treats a patient in the mountain community of Gradica, Kosovo. Canadian soldiers have been in Kosovo for 8 months, and although the main job of the medical team is to care for these 1400 troops, it also visits civilian clinics, travelling via armoured personnel carrier. At the clinics, which rotate among villages in need, Hurley dispenses drugs donated by Pharmaciens sans Frontières. The clinics are a volunteer effort, with everyone from doctors to ambulance drivers donating their time. Hurley thinks the clinics play a crucial role because no established family or preventive medicine has been practised in many parts of Kosovo for 7 or 8 years. "Some of the people we see here have diseases that would be easily treated in Canada, but here there is only so much we can do."— Lieutenant-Commander Jacques Fauteux, Kosovo
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