Photographic Exhibition Curated by WISH Highlights The Difficulties Of Providing Healthcare In Conflict Settings
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) is curating an exhibition at the Education City Student Center, Doha, that uses photography to explore the complex health issues faced by communities living in perilous conditions due to conflict and the work being done by healthcare professionals to help them.
The exhibition, titled “Healthcare in Conflict Settings: Mitigating Suffering, Offering Hope”, will run from April 23-30. Entry to the exhibition is free. A preview event will be held on Sunday, April 22 from 5pm, which will be attended by Dr. Mukesh Kapila, WISH Forum Chair and Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, and exhibiting photographer Showkat Shafi, whose photographs for Al Jazeera of the plight of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar feature in the exhibition.
The exhibition showcases the work of eight photographers working with organizations such as Qatar Red Crescent, Orbis, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and Al Jazeera. Among the conflict settings featured are Syria, Yemen, Palestine, and Bangladesh.
Kuwaiti photographer Abdulrahman Al Terkait, who has contributed photos of the rehabilitation of amputee children in Syria to the WISH exhibition, commented: “Through my pictures I try to convey the challenges faced, but also the positivity of the children I feature. I’m honored to have been included in an photographic exhibition that explores such an important and emotive subject.”
WISH, an initiative of Qatar Foundation, recently announced that healthcare in conflict settings is to be one of the core topics that will featured in WISH 2018, which will take place in Doha on November 13-14. A report will be produced ahead of the summit and an event that brought experts together to discuss the problems faced when delivering healthcare in conflict zones was held earlier this month at the University of Oxford.
Further public discussions on the subject of healthcare in conflict settings as well as further opportunities for the public to see the WISH photo exhibition in Doha are being planned for the months leading up to the November summit.
WISH 2018 will gather global healthcare leaders in QNCC to highlight and address some of the world’s most pressing healthcare challenges. WISH’s biennial Doha summits have quickly become established as major highlights of the global healthcare calendar for the thousands of high-level policy-makers, academics, and professionals who attend. It has also become a key platform for the dissemination of healthcare innovation and best practices.
