British health worker on conditions in Bosnia

Title

British health worker on conditions in Bosnia

Genre

Interview

TX Date

15 Mar 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:08:19

Description

Interview with World Health Organisation physician Dr Simon Mardell(?) who was recently in Eastern Bosnia, where he saw people massacred after unrelenting Serbian military attacks. He describes the carnage and the aftermath with appalling living conditions for refugees, and the efforts of the volunteer health workers with lack of equipment. Says these are the worse conditions he has ever seen, having worked all over the world, with the people trapped as UN evacuation convoys have been stopped and little aid is getting through. Angela Rippon interviews?

Contributors

Angela Rippon?; Simon Mardell(?)

Keywords

Deaths; Health; Health services; Civil war; UN; Refugees; Hunger; War (concept); Foreign aid; Wars (events); Yugoslavia; Civil wars (events); Interethnic conflicts; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Serbia; Yugoslav War (1991-1995); Srebrenica

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