In the practice of pediatrics in Six Fols, South Dakota, Dr. Alaa Al -Nawfal sees up to 10 patients per day. He knows some of them since their birth. Others are still being treated after graduating from high school.
“I dealt with these children for type 1 diabetes, thyroid problems, thyroid cancer, puberty and adrenal diseases,” he said.
Al Nawfal’s experience is crucial. It is one of only five endocrine doctors in the area of 150,000 square miles covering both southern and northern Dakota.
Like most rural America, it is an area that suffers from a lack of doctors.
“We are very fortunate for Dr. Al Nawfal here. We cannot lose someone with his specialty,” said Sanford Health’s chief marketing official, Cindy Morrison, a non -profit health care system based in Six Falls.
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However, Sanford Health may lose the farmer and many other doctors who suffer from a decisive health care network.
Noval, a Syrian citizen, is in Six, through a special program for the development of a workforce called the Conrad 30 visa-which mainly waives the requirements that doctors who complete their residence on a visitor visa J-1 must return to their country for two years before applying for another American Butza. Konrad 30 is allowed to remain in the United States for a maximum of three years as long as he is committed to practice in an area where there is a lack of a doctor.
After President Donald Trump issued a Prohibition of temporary immigration Restricting persons from seven Muslim-majority countries-including Syria-from entering the United States, Al Nawfal is not sure of his future in America.
“We agree that something else must be done to protect the country, but this executive will have a negative impact on doctors from these countries who need an urgent need throughout America.” “They may not want to train in the United States.” The procedure is currently in a state of legal forgetfulness after the Federal Appeal Court Temporarily Ban.
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Over the past fifteen years, the Conrad 30 visa abdicated He converted 15,000 foreign doctors into deprived societies of services.
Sanford Health 75 doctors neglect these visa exemptions and seven countries listed in the executive order. “If we lose Dr. Al Noval and our other doctors at J-1, we will not be able to fill the critical gaps in obtaining health care for rural families,” Morrison said in Sanford Health.
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More than 6000 medical trainees from foreign countries are recorded every year in US residence programs through J-1 visas. About 1,000 of these trainees from the countries that have been in the ban, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges. The J-1 visa holders who were outside the country when the ban had entered into force from entering the United States and were unable to start or end the school as long as the ban was in place.
Foreign Ministry told CNNMoney that the government may issue J-1 visas for people who are from one of the banned countries if they are of national importance, but it will not confirm whether the doctor’s shortage will be Qualified for such consideration.
Dr. Larry del, deputy dean at Marshall School at Marshall University, said, “Stress and anxiety resulting from the short term in the short term can have long -term effects, as fewer doctors choose training programs in the United States, after which the amplification of the service providers is ready to practice medicine in medicine in Huntington,” said Dr. Larry del, deputy dean at Marshall School at Marshall University.
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Al-Nawfal went to the Faculty of Medicine in Damascus, the capital of Syria, and completed his residence at the University of Texas with the J-1 visa. Go to a fellowa in Mayo Clinic and then apply for the J-1 waiver, which put it in Sioux Falls.
After nineteen months of his commitment for a period The consultant doctor of more than 400 patients with pediatrics per month on average.
Most of his patients see Sanford Children Speciality in Sioux Falls, where families often lead hours to get an appointment. Once a month, fly on a small plane to see patients in a clinic in Aberdeen, about 200 miles.
Al Noufal said, citing the long hours and the famous South Dakota winter in the famous winter in the famous winter in the famous winter in the famous winter in the famous winter in the famous winter in South Dakota. “But as a doctor, I am a trainer to help people, whatever the circumstances, and I am proud of them.”
It is one of the reasons behind the struggle of Al Nawfal and his American wife Alyssa in order to reconcile with a visa ban.
“I have a 10 -month -old child and I cannot travel to Syria now. My family in Syria cannot come here,” he said. “Now my family cannot meet their first grandson.”
“I know if we are leaving, perhaps I can never return,” he said. He does not want to travel anywhere in the country now. “I fear how I will be treated,” he said. He is also afraid that he will be stopped at the airport – even if he is traveling to another state.
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Almatmed Abdelsalam, who was from Benghazi, Libya, had planned to start training as a family doctor in McCont, Georgia, through the visa waiver program after he finished his stay at the University of Central Florida University in July.
Everything was running smoothly. Abdel -Salem, who treats hospital patients and ancient warriors, came to relinquish the visa and was accepted. A work contract with Magna Care, which provides doctors, has signed three hospitals in the Macon area and began looking at the homes to transport himself, his wife and their young children during the summer.
But there was a last step. In order to complete the request for a waiver of J-1, it needs to obtain final approval from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration Services in the United States.
“The executive order came in the middle of this operation, which stopped my request at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” he said.
Since he is a Libyan citizen (Libya is also undergoing a visa prohibition), Abulqalam is afraid of the result.
“The hospital in Makon urgently needs doctors. Although they rented me, I am not sure of the time they can wait,” he said.
“No one can argue that it is necessary to maintain the security of the country, but we must also maintain the health of the country,” he said. “Doctors, like me, who have been trained in the United States in some of the best schools, are assets that are not responsible.”
CNNMoney (New York) It was first published on February 10, 2017: 7:47 pm East time