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Ten years and hundreds of surgical operations later, the Olsens transferred their lives and skills to the South Asian nation of East Pakistan, most recently reborn as Bangladesh. The account of their dedicated efforts to provide scientific, compassionate medical-surgi- cal care to the multitudes in East Pakistan reads like a spell-binding novel. Many young men and women, including my own daughter Jeannie, willingly joined them in that herculean task. Because of this team effort, hundreds live today whose lives would have been snatched away by bullets, bayonets, cholera, malaria, and a hundred other death-dealing diseases.
Pakistan, with its east and west wings separated by eleven hundred miles of enemy territory (India), was a geographical absurdity. East Pakistanis, moreover, differed from West Pakistanis in nearly every respect: nationality, appearance, language, dress, diet, customs, and culture. Only the Islamic religion and the daily interviewing flights of Pakistan International Airlines held the two disparate wings together.
ISBN:0802417469
