Baku and Sumgayit One group of Physicians With Heart delegates visited Baku refugee camps and orphanages there and took a day trip to Sumgayit, a city north of Baku on the Caspian Sea. At the camps, we had the opportunity to see the conditions of the refugees. Of course, they all want their land back, and that's probably not going to happen, but we were able to have a glimpse of how we might help. Physicians With Heart medicine and supplies will be distributed at the camps by the humanitarian groups Medical International Relief and United Methodist Committee on Relief. Some refugees live in a camp of delapidated unfinished buildings.
Some families live in a dingy basement at the end of a long tunnel bringing both visitors and rain.
At another camp, refugees live in seven-storey dormitories designed for college students. Each family has a room, but each floor of 20-30 rooms has only one bathroom and one sink, the families' only source of water. A refugee physician and his wife, a midwife, live in a dorm and do their best to provide care but have no instruments. That an infant so small could be born here and be gaining weight, doing relatively well, is amazing. If you ever want an example of the universal ethic shared by physicians, here it is.