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Los Altos M.D., Dr. Debra Matityahu of Kaiser Permanente repairs Kenyan lives

EMOTIONAL REUNION WITH PATIENT FOR LOCAL FAMILY

Dr. Debra Matityahu, a resident of Los Altos and an OBGYN at Kaiser Permanente Redwood City, volunteers at a Kenyan clinic treating women who've been shunned because of obstetric fistulas. She and her teenage daughter Arielle founded a non-profit A Little For A Lot, to help rehabilitate these poverty-stricken women. Dr. Matityahu blogs about this year's trip to Kenya at the Kaiser Permanente website, "Dispatches From..." which is at this link:
http://kpdispatchesfrom.org/2013/07/05/dr-debs-dispatch-from-kenya-seeing-priscillah-after-2-12-year...

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