Dr. Othman Abu Salah is currently trained in the PICU, 2010 - 2011
I am Dr. Othman Abu Salah, a Pediatrician from Palestine, living in Nablus.
I have been working in Nablus at the Rafidia hospital, in the pediatric department for the last 15 years.
I was chosen by my chief of department to come to Wolfson medical center to participate in PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, which is a part of a project cooperation between the Palestinian ministry of health and the SAVE A CHILD'S HEART organization to upgrade the knowledge in this field for Palestinian doctors.
I started my practice in October 2010 and the period is extended to the end of December 2011.
During my stay here I got a great knowledge in this field of medicine and skills which I didn’t know before. This was gratefully done by my expert trainer Dr. Sion Houri and his deputy Dr. Ilan Cohen , who gave me a great impression about dealing with many kinds of diseases in the PICU and skills in dealing with machines there, from mechanical ventilation to peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, plasmophoresis and inserting vascular central lines and so on.
These procedures were done for kids from all over the world – Palestinians, Iraqi, Africans, Asians and even Israeli, not looking who is the kid or what is his race or color.
Beside this I had an opportunity to attend medical conferences in other Israeli hospitals – Tel Hashomer, Ikhilov and Shaare Zedek. I am also going to attend the European society for intensive care medicine congress in Berlin – Germany.
From the social side I had great relations with my colleagues in the unit starting from the chief, to residents, to nurses and I participated in organizing a picnic with a barbeque party in some local park.
For my family, I had also an opportunity to get permission for them to come for sightseeing.
At the end I want to thank everyone who gave me this chance and everyone who helped me in staying here:
My trainers Dr. Sion , Dr. Ilan
Mr. Simon Fisher, SACH’s Executive Director
Mrs. Sarah Nevo, SACH’s Office Manager
Mrs. Laura Kafif, SACH’s Housemother
Mrs. Dawn Mizrahi, Medical Secretary
And all the others I didn’t mention