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A healthy approach to helping others M D s p e n d s tim e in w a r -to rn c o u n t iie s By Melanie Cummings SPKCIAt.TO 11II-: HI-.AVKH The Oakville Beaver. W e d n e sd a y Ja n u a ry 22, 2003 -A5 BOWLATHON BENEFITS JA: Bow l away the February blahs at the Junior Achievement of Halton's 2003 Hulabowl Bowlathon on Saturday. Feb. 22. It will be an afternoon of fun, prizes and bowling games at Burlington Bowl, 4065 Harvester Rd. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. The Hulabowling gets rolling at I p.m. Organize a team of family, friends and/or col leagues. and call 905-637-7200 to register. N ot only has Dr. Bruce Lampard worked as a physician in such war-torn coun tries as Afghanistan and South Africa, the Canadian medical practitioner has also experienced what it was like to be a patient. In March 2001. just three months into his first mission in the south Sudan, Lampard became very ill. Feverish and immobile, he was flown to a Nairobi hospital where he spent a week recuperating. "It was an eye-opening experience to be a patient, and gave me a firsthand perspective of what it must be like for the people I treated." he told members of the Canadian Club of HaltonPeel last Thursday at the Holiday Inn Express. Since joining the volunteer relief agency. Doctors Without Borders, two years ago, Lampard has landed six months at a time in medical stations far from the modem treatment facilities he is used to at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital where he's an emergency physician. Working in dilapidated, rusted, tin shacks and makeshift tents, and living in mud thatched roof huts and clapboard houses shared with iguanas and scorpions. Lampard has treated, fed. and created clinics for thousands of people who would otherwise not have health care. He landed in a front-line hospital amidst a 40-year-old civil war in the Sudan w'here he saw an average of 2.4(H) patients per week. There he saw heart-wrenching suffering turn into hope. In his slide presentation, he presented a photo he had taken of a boy and girl lying help less from the wrath of an illness transmitted by a common sand bug. They could barely hold their head up when they were brought to Lampard. After proper pharmaceutical and nutritional treatment, the siblings left, walking. Lampard has also traversed hundreds of miles of dirt and snow-covered roads on foot in Afghanistan's most remote villages to set up health clinics, and gotten his hands dirty while digging a massive pit in a hospital in Qala L Nav, where a medical waste management area was created. He has unknowingly confronted a rebel commander when the military leader entered the hospital ward with armed body guards. (Guns are prohibited in Doctors Without Borders compounds). And he struggled with the gender segrega tion that is part and parcel to life in Afghanistan where the maternal mortality rate is high T h isfewY e a rs, w h ym ilg iv e iliin iin ii aw h irl? D ancc is ilic universal expression of joy - w h at b etter way to celebrate the New Year? Let th e rh y th m take you in to th e New Year ai Fred Astaire D ance Studios. M ake it a resolution "/ will have more fu n this year." N E W Y E A R S S P E C IA L * 10 Hours of Dance for $20.03 Lim ited t im e offer 225 Lakeshore Road luisL 2nd Floor Downtown Oakville 1block west of Trafalgar R d. (Entrance Irom both Lakeshore Rd. 8 parking lot ofl Church St.) (905) 8 4 2 -3 7 9 7 w w w .tre d a sta ire .ca ` N e w a d u lt s t u d e n t s o n ly please mum * 'lo ve our quality love our p rice' 7 0 % fin a l c le a r a n c e Peter C.McCusker · O a kville Beaver OFF select items Dr. Bruce Lampard, a member of Doctors Without Borders, showed the audience, via his lap top, pictures of war-torn countries fo ra presentation at the Holiday Inn Express Wednesday night. He spoke of the overwhelming need for basic health care in war-torn countries. becausc most health care workers are male and therefore, forbidden to treat women, despite their dire medical circumstances. After all this he is "itching to go away again." Lampard is one of 2,000 volunteers from 1 8 nations who provide their services to Doctors Without Borders. The organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 for providing ongoing famine relief, emergency medical treatment, supplies, public health training and education, vaccina tions and rehabilitation services in more than 80 countries. accessories from 0.99 tops from 4.99 bottoms from 6.99 dresses from 6.99 visit us in store or online at www.pleasemum.com Want to know more about policing? Citizens academy pronwtes wulerstanding ofseivice: chief The Halton Regional Police Service is holding its third session of the Citizens Police Academy starting Jan. 28. The academy runs 12 consecutive nights each Tuesday until April 15. 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