HEART SURGERY ON SYRIAN REFUGEES
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My name is Imad Tabry, MD. I was born in Palestine and spent most of my life in Lebanon before coming to the US in 1974 to receive training in heart surgery at Yale and the Mayo Clinic . I have since been practicing adult cardiac surgery in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, area for the past 36 years.
In July 2016 I joined a medical mission in Amman, Jordan, organized by SAMS (Syrian American Medical Society), a US based nonprofit 501 (C) 3 medical relief organization working to alleviate suffering and save the lives of Syrian refugees. My contribution to the one week mission was to perform open heart surgeries (coronary bypass surgery, valve replacement and combination of both) on 15 such patients living in the Zaatari refugee camp on the border with Syria. Invariably, when the surgery was completed and I would go to the waiting room to reassure the family, their poignant reaction was: "Is he going to be able to go back to work so he can put food on the table?". Although I did not visit the Zaatari camp and see the miseries with my own eyes, I had visited similar Iraqi and Syrian refugee camps a few months earlier when I had joined another mission in Erbil, Iraq. The miseries I witnessed there will forever stay in my memory and undoubtedly compel me to continue along the path of humanitarian assistance in my specialty.
Although every medical member of the team was fully responsible for the financial cost of the trip, SAMS had to pay the hospital where the surgeries were performed (The Gardens in Amman, Jordan) the sum of $6,000 per patient. I was most surprised to learn that the LDS (Latterday Saints, also known as "Mormons") generously donated the entire bill in a humble call to action.
Presently SAMS is planning a return trip to Amman, Jordan, in November 2017. Among other activities, the plan is to perform 14 (or more) heart surgeries on needy Syrian refugees. The estimated cost of these surgeries should be in the range of $100,000. I received this notice from their office today: "So it wont be an issue of patients, but more so raising funds. If you can start working on this and perhaps finding grants or sponsors I think it would be extremely successful!"
So, here I stand, unconditionally committed to helping SAMS alleviate the ongoing Syrian Refugees crisis, but also needing your immediate help to raise the necessary funds for the planned November mission.
Please make your TAX-EXEMPT donations (Tax ID: 16-1717058) to this superb non-profit humanitarian organization. You can donate with a Credit Card (go on the SAMS web page or donate here on GoFundMe) and if you prefer to donate by check or money order, please make payable to: Syrian American Medical Society, and mail to: PO Box 34115, Washington DC 20043 .
In any case please designate the donation toward Dr Tabry's surgical mission in November 2017.
"We make a Living by what we get, but we make a Life by what we give"
William Shakespeare
Thank you,
Imad Tabry, MD
[email redacted]
In July 2016 I joined a medical mission in Amman, Jordan, organized by SAMS (Syrian American Medical Society), a US based nonprofit 501 (C) 3 medical relief organization working to alleviate suffering and save the lives of Syrian refugees. My contribution to the one week mission was to perform open heart surgeries (coronary bypass surgery, valve replacement and combination of both) on 15 such patients living in the Zaatari refugee camp on the border with Syria. Invariably, when the surgery was completed and I would go to the waiting room to reassure the family, their poignant reaction was: "Is he going to be able to go back to work so he can put food on the table?". Although I did not visit the Zaatari camp and see the miseries with my own eyes, I had visited similar Iraqi and Syrian refugee camps a few months earlier when I had joined another mission in Erbil, Iraq. The miseries I witnessed there will forever stay in my memory and undoubtedly compel me to continue along the path of humanitarian assistance in my specialty.
Although every medical member of the team was fully responsible for the financial cost of the trip, SAMS had to pay the hospital where the surgeries were performed (The Gardens in Amman, Jordan) the sum of $6,000 per patient. I was most surprised to learn that the LDS (Latterday Saints, also known as "Mormons") generously donated the entire bill in a humble call to action.
Presently SAMS is planning a return trip to Amman, Jordan, in November 2017. Among other activities, the plan is to perform 14 (or more) heart surgeries on needy Syrian refugees. The estimated cost of these surgeries should be in the range of $100,000. I received this notice from their office today: "So it wont be an issue of patients, but more so raising funds. If you can start working on this and perhaps finding grants or sponsors I think it would be extremely successful!"
So, here I stand, unconditionally committed to helping SAMS alleviate the ongoing Syrian Refugees crisis, but also needing your immediate help to raise the necessary funds for the planned November mission.
Please make your TAX-EXEMPT donations (Tax ID: 16-1717058) to this superb non-profit humanitarian organization. You can donate with a Credit Card (go on the SAMS web page or donate here on GoFundMe) and if you prefer to donate by check or money order, please make payable to: Syrian American Medical Society, and mail to: PO Box 34115, Washington DC 20043 .
In any case please designate the donation toward Dr Tabry's surgical mission in November 2017.
"We make a Living by what we get, but we make a Life by what we give"
William Shakespeare
Thank you,
Imad Tabry, MD
[email redacted]
Organizer
IMAD TABRY, MD
Organizer
Fort Lauderdale, FL