Dr. Galaria, First Responder After Earthquake

Sally Voth of NVdaily.com reports:

WINCHESTER -- Setting foot in Haiti just days after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, Winchester surgeon Dr. Irfan Galaria was reminded of a war zone.

He would know, having been part of a medical aid team to Gaza last winter following an Israeli bombing campaign.

"My initial reaction [in Haiti], I was very shocked to how similar the situation seemed, but in Gaza it was man-made, it was from missiles," said Galaria, sitting in his office at his recently opened practice, Galaria Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, in Winchester.

The earthquake occurred on a Tuesday, and within a day, Galaria, who performs mainly reconstructive and hand surgery and has a lot of experience in trauma and wound care, knew what he had to do.

[Read full article]