Tetsu Nakamura: Japanese physician and honorary Afghan citizen, who headed Peace Japan Medical Services

In 1998 Nakamura was eventually able to establish the 70 bed Peshawar Medical Services Hospital, along with four satellite units, which together served 150 000 patients a year. [...]with the outbreak of dysentery and cholera, the need for more basic provisions, such as access to clean water and food...

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Published in:BMJ (Online) 2020-03, Vol.368, p.m1046
Main Authors: Nazimi, Khyber, Inaba, Akimichi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abe, Shinzo
Aggression
Canals
Cholera
Drought
Dysentery
Hospitals
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Summary:In 1998 Nakamura was eventually able to establish the 70 bed Peshawar Medical Services Hospital, along with four satellite units, which together served 150 000 patients a year. [...]with the outbreak of dysentery and cholera, the need for more basic provisions, such as access to clean water and food, were obvious, especially after a crippling drought hit the region in 2000. [...]he understood that the vicious cycle of violence was as much from the lack of water and food as any divisive ideological or political differences. Tetsu Nakamura (b 1946;q Kyūshū University School of Medicine 1973), died in an ambush in Afghanistan on 4 December 2019 Khyber Nazimi is an Afghan-British core medical trainee at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Akimichi Inaba is a Japanese-British clinical lecturer in nephrology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
ISSN:1756-1833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.m1046