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Health-care workers and residents urge San Francisco Health Department to call for Gaza ceasefire

San Francisco Health Commission · December 19, 2023
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Multiple health-care workers and community members used the public-comment period to urge the San Francisco Department of Public Health to declare the violence in Gaza a public-health and human-rights crisis and to support a city ceasefire resolution; speakers said DPH silence harms local patients and staff.

A sustained block of general public comment at the Health Commission meeting focused on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Health-care workers and community members urged the San Francisco Department of Public Health and Commission leadership to use their platforms to call for an immediate ceasefire and to name the humanitarian situation a public-health crisis.

Mural, a licensed clinical social worker, argued…

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