This week on Local Motion, we'll hear from two Colorado medical providers. One volunteered in Ukraine and the other in Gaza.
First, we’ll hear from physician assistant Bob Downs about his recent medical mission to Ukraine.
Downs worked as a physician assistant in the tiny mountain town of Lake City for the past decade. The 66-year-old retired from full-time practice in February. Then in March, he went to Ukraine on a medical mission with Global Care Force, a nonprofit organization. Downs needed to raise $6,500.00 to go on the trip. He surpassed that goal in a matter of days with a majority of his funding coming from the Lake City community. He’s planning to return to Ukraine in July for a second medical mission.
Then, we'll hear from Grand Junction pediatrician Barbara Zind who recently retired from full-time practice. She was stuck in Gaza for nearly a month after war broke out between Israel and Hamas in October of last year.
Zind was in Gaza as a volunteer with Palestine Children’s Relief Fund on a humanitarian mission to treat chronically ill children. That mission was cut short and she ended up spending the next 26 days in an active war zone.
