Thanks to Katharina Muench from Munich for circulating to ISSOP (International Society for Social Paediatrics) this youtube of disgraceful and human rights abusing actions at the US border with Mexico, when doctors were arrested for trying to vaccinate children in detention - several unvaccinated children have already died from influenza.
https://nowthisnews.com/politics/doctors-say-they-were-arrested-trying-t...
The group of doctors entitled Doctors for Camp Closure https://www.facebook.com/Doctors4CampClosure deserves great credit for their efforts to publicise this abuse of children's rights and to lie on the road to prevent it happening. The American Academy of Pediatrics has also spoken out
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/20/the-us-wont-vaccinate-migrant-children-a...
Please publicise this shocking example of child maltreatment as widely as possible
Tony Waterston
CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA. www.chifa.org<http://www.chifa.org/> He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group. www.hifa.org/people/steering-group<http://www.hifa.org/people/steering-group> www.hifa.org/support/members/tony<http://www.hifa.org/support/members/tony>
Email: Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
