Posted by
Billy on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:28:17 PM
The large Sudanese population in Nebraska and Iowa brings unique challenges
to the doctors and nurses who treat them, and a Sudanese physician this week
tried to provide some solutions.
Dr. Muawia Gorti spoke this week in Omaha with representatives of Planned
Parenthood, the Charles Drew Health Center, the University of Nebraska Medical
Center and other groups. Gorti, who is employed by Planned Parenthood’s
international division, addressed that agency’s clinicians and staffers earlier
in the week in Des Moines. (Doctors learn to treat Sudanese )
Gorti and those he spoke to agreed that the Sudanese display vast cultural
differences and foreign notions of medical care.
Although many experts say Omaha has one of the largest Sudanese populations
in the nation, pinning down that number, like grasping Sudanese culture, has
proven elusive.
Maggie Kalkowski, a Lutheran Family Services official at the Omaha meeting,
said estimates have ranged in Omaha from 6,000 to 25,000.
Penny Dickey, chief operating officer for Planned Parenthood of the
Heartland, estimated that Iowa has 6,000 people of Sudanese origin
( The above is part of a story which was in my local paper a few days ago. I am sorry but anytime Planned Parenthood is involved I get a funny feeling. This is a group which will do everything in it's power to kill babies and to keep them from being born regardless what race or culture they are. Also Planned Parenthood will do what it can to keep parents from knowing what their children are doing.)