In an announcement by a large Israeli hospital late last month, medical professionals were invited to volunteer for a humanitarian mission to Burundi "to provide high-quality medical care and strengthen the local medical infrastructure." This of course is an important and honorable effort, but it totally ignores the situation around us.

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