June 29, 2024
On June 1,
approximately 50 medical students from Washington University in St. Louis,
Saint Louis University, and others interested in the topic gathered at a public
library in St. Louis’s Central West End near both campuses to hear neonatal
specialist Yassar Arain describe the medical apartheid he experienced while
volunteering in a neonatal intensive care unit in Gaza this spring. Some openly
wept as he recounted tragedies he’d witnessed but was powerless to avert.
