Noelia Corzo
A declaration of solidarity with health care workers in Gaza and a call for a cease-fire between Israel and Palestine will be proposed by Supervisor Noelia Corzo at the San Mateo Medical Center Board meeting Monday.
“Our county has been very quiet on this issue,” Corzo said. “There is no end in sight. The suffering hasn’t lessened, it’s only escalated and people need to speak up.”
Medical Center board meetings typically tend toward reports on health care trends, finances and reports rather than political or philosophical discussions. The board is made up of health care professionals who work in the county’s Health Care System and Medical Center, two members of the Board of Supervisors and the County Executive Officer Mike Callagy.
Corzo said she didn’t have the support to bring it up at the Board of Supervisors level, but emphasized what’s happening in Gaza affects the larger health care community across the globe.
“The goal of this resolution is to uplift the suffering in Gaza and to express solidarity with medical workers who have lost their lives,” Corzo said. “Hospitals and medical centers, they’re meant to be places of safety and healing.”
Included in Corzo’s memo for the resolution, there is a notice to the United Nations by the charity organization Médecins Sans Frontières that there is no health care system in Gaza. Since Oct. 7, Israeli military has targeted medical facilities, doctors, hospital staff and patients with an estimated 337 heath care workers killed, it stated.
“I’m hoping we will have a discussion about what it means to be in the medical community right now at this point in history,” Corzo said. “Twenty, 40 years in the future, do we want to look back and say that we did something.”
Cities throughout the region have discussed passing such resolutions over the last few months, with San Bruno and Foster City ultimately rejecting request to add it to future council meeting agendas. San Francisco and Oakland have passed cease-fire related resolutions in the last several months. South San Francisco officials had a preliminary discussion on placing the matter on the agenda this week.
If approved, the board will join nurses and nurse practitioners in the county who are a part of the California Nurses Association, that called for a cease-fire Nov. 13.
Callagy, Supervisor David Canepa and County Health Chief Louise Rogers, who serve on the board, declined to comment ahead of the meeting.
The meeting will be 8 a.m. March 4 at the Board of Supervisors Chambers.
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(3) comments
Here we go again… with another waste of time and money. Unless the SMMC Board first passes a declaration calling out Hamas as a terror organization that massacred Israelis to start the war, then it might be okay to waste some time and money. If not, it’s surprising (to me, at least) we have many so-called Peninsula leaders who are Hamas sympathizers. Corzo in San Mateo and a number of so-called leaders in San Bruno and SSF… For those running against Corzo (or other folks with the same mindset), be sure to call out their sympathy for Hamas terrorists. I’d say it would garner you more votes as long as we see you don’t agree with Corzo or other Hamas sympathizers.
The cease fire needs to be with Hamas, which politician is willing to hand deliver the cease fire to Hamas leadership?
Médecins Sans Frontières sounds like another front group similar to the United Nations "aid organization" in Gaza that mainly aided Hamas. This statement about targeting hospitals is pure misinformation.
"Included in Corzo’s memo for the resolution, there is a notice to the United Nations by the charity organization Médecins Sans Frontières that there is no health care system in Gaza. Since Oct. 7, Israeli military has targeted medical facilities, doctors, hospital staff and patients with an estimated 337 heath care workers killed, it stated."
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