 Helena Williams  GET UPDATES FROM Helena Williams  How Dr Amna
Tillisi is Taking Medical Aid to Libya  Posted: 09/11/11 00:00
For Dr Amna Tillisi, the struggle in Libya isn't over yet.
Every night she sifts through the hundreds of boxes of medical
supplies lining her garage in Essex, packing and labelling, and
checking that their contents have not expired. She is helping
ship them out to camps on the Libyan/Tunisian border, where an
estimated 30,000 refugees have fled to following the uprisings
in February.  By day, Tillisi, 46, organises meetings with other
Libyan doctors, brainstorming ideas to raise funds for the
wounded and displaced. She has recently returned to her position
as a gynaecologist after giving up her job to wholly devote
herself to aiding refugees.  She tells me, "I feel exhausted.
You work so much, you have sleepless nights. It has been very,
very busy." Tillisi is still committed to the cause, she says,
"I only went back to part-time work two weeks ago - I'm still
focussing on the relie