{"id":10827,"date":"2023-03-31T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/oom-recipients\/keith-ursel\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:19:52","slug":"keith-ursel","status":"publish","type":"oom-recipients","link":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/oom-recipients\/keith-ursel\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Ursel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate of Grant Park High School and the University of Manitoba, he has dedicated almost 20 years to international relief work, often at his own peril. A registered nurse, in 1992 he joined the emergency medical group M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (Doctors Without Borders) which saw him dispatched to many of the world\u2019s trouble spots including the Kenya-Somali border (1992), where he directed a 200-bed emergency bush hospital; and Afghanistan (1994-95), where he directed a Kabul war hospital project facing frequent air and artillery attacks; as well as working in Chechnya, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Sarajevo and Pakistan. He has worked with the United Nations\u2019 World Food Program (UNWFP) since 1998 and as a member of the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team; assignments taking him to Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gaza, Tanzania and Turkmenistan with emergency deployments to earthquakes\/tsunamis in Indonesia and Pakistan. One of Life Magazine\u2019s Heroes of the Year (1998), he is presently an advisor at the UNWFP in Somalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-10827","oom-recipients","type-oom-recipients","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients\/10827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oom-recipients"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}