Migrant survivors of torture : A silent epidemic of trauma

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A Medical Doctor Reflects on the Treatment and Healing of Torture Survivors

Kate Sugarman is a medical doctor at Unity Health Care in Washington, DC, a public community health clinic. She works with people who have survived abuse and trauma, including many refugees. As a family physician, she is qualified to make medical diagnoses and prescribe treatments. She has particular experience in diagnosing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder through her family medicine training program and her clinical practice, which focuses on minority and immigrant patients, many of whom suffer from physical and mental disorders. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Georgetown University Law School Center for Applied Legal Studies (the Law Clinic) in support of their asylum work. Here, she discusses her work, and the new reality of a Trump Administration:

▻http://www.asylumist.com/2016/11/16/a-medical-doctor-reflects-on-the-treatment-and-healing-of-torture-survivo

Migrant survivors of torture: A ‘silent epidemic’ of trauma

Outside a mobile clinic for migrants in Rome, 20-year-old Ibrahim from Mali is among 20 others waiting to see the doctor. He has suffered from insomnia since he arrived in Italy in 2016. For the few hours a night that he manages to sleep, he is plagued with nightmares – of his journey crossing the Mediterranean Sea on an overloaded boat, where fellow passengers died crushed by the weight of others, or of prison camps in Mali and Libya, where he suffered beatings, sexual abuse and torture.

▻http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/MigrantSurvivorsOfTorture.aspx