Urgent call from the Gulf: More Barefoot Doctors needed

"My brother's recent hospice... is telling me about patients dying of internal bleeding and pneumonia after getting rashes and respiratory illness. And also getting sick and bleeding internally after eating Gulf seafood." - Correspondence to Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors, September 17, 2010

Call for more barefoot doctors

More and more serious health complaints from people along the Gulf Coast, especially from Louisiana and Florida Panhandle, are being made to Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors (GCBD) that have called for stronger community members with compassion throughout the region to become barefoot doctors to help serve growing needs of the sick and the poor. Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors is a grassroots initiative of volunteers and no paid staff.

The petrochemical-military-industrial-complex (PMIC) teams continue spraying Corexit in the Gulf, along the coastal land, and on inland waters, despite BP, Coast Guard, and Obama administration claims that the chemical attacks ceased in July.

"They lie," say Bill Nungasser, Plaquemines Parish president and Delia LaBarre, head of Gulf Coast Baerefoot Doctors, both Louisianans referring to the PMIC leaders and an its minions just following orders to participate in the Gulf crime against humanity that continues to be played out with no effective resistance.

"They've also probably lied about amount of Corexit released into the environment," stated LaBarre to the Examiner.

The "official" amount of Corext used in the Gulf region was stated to be 1.8 million gallons several months ago. Estimates are now 40 million gallons, according to independent investigative journalist Dahr Jamail, who has done extensive reporting on this catastrophe.

LaBarre emphasized what Dr. Riki Ott warned soon after the Gulf gassing operation began: Not having symptoms or noticing ill smells does not mean that you are not being exposed.

"If you live in the Gulf region, you have been and probably are being exposed to some degree or another and should be undertaking a serious detoxification regimen," the barefoot doc tells people emailing her.

"We live in a toxic world, but this combination of dispersed oil or the Corexit by itself is particularly dangerous because Corexit serves as a delivery agent for its own harmful toxins, those of the oil, and anything else in the air.

"I'm not trying to scare people if they live in the Gulf region. I'm merely urging them to take precautions and persuade others to do the same," said LaBarre.

"This is a health emergency that the government is ignoring because they're either trying to kill people and the entire ecosystem or don't mind if they do."

'Barefoot doctoring' - the art of caring for self and others

In tradition of barefoot doctors extending compassion to care for self and others, Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors are sending Toxic Survival Kits to people from Louisiana coastal communities to Longbeach, Mississippi, to Mobile, to Pensacola, to Destin, to Tampa Bay area, and even to Ft. Lauderdale.

A recent report widely distributed in alternative news journals described a family in Homassassa, Florida that discovered Corexit in their swimming pool, only after developing chemical poisoning. They soon learned they were not the only ones in their community with the same poisoning.

Among emails Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors received last week is the following:

"We had to move from Kenner, Louisiana because everyone in my family came down with headaches, nausea, and vomiting. But when two of us started having blood in our urine and feces, I did my research and this is case book symptoms of Corexit use.

"I started to document the plants in the yard and the garden. The leaves would have various colored “spots” and then decay. Also a white baby powder looking substance would cover some leaves. One day I actually went out and found oil on some plants.

We moved farther north and the symptoms went away.

For anyone still living on the coast and can't leave, I found two simple things you can do to help your body bind and eliminate the toxins in your body. Lemonaide and a good B-complex vitamin. A good recipe for the lemonaide is 1 cup real lemon juice and 1 cup sugar (or agave nectar for diabetics) and add water to taste. This will help you begin to feel better.