Two events this week highlight UNMC’s continued efforts to help Haiti recover from the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Four health care professionals, three nurses and a psychiatrist, will deploy to Port-Au-Prince today as part of a series of three deployments UNMC volunteers will make to Haiti in the next few weeks.
Nurse Nick Hall with the triplets he helped deliver during UNMC’s first deployment to Haiti. UNMC sends its third deployment of volunteers into the earthquake-ravaged nation today. (Jennifer Browning, Project Medishare) |
“Haiti and the needs of its people are still firmly planted in our consciousness,” said Dr. El-Mohandes, who along with Rubens Pamies, M.D., vice chancellor for academic affairs, leads UNMC’s Haitian relief efforts. “There is much work to be done to help the country recover and we at UNMC want to use our various resources to help Haiti along the path toward renewal.”
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The deployments will overlap, which will allow outgoing volunteers to help transition the incoming groups.
UNMC has previously sent two deployments to Haiti, the first in the initial days after the earthquake, and the second about three weeks later.
At the meeting in Port-Au-Prince, Drs. El-Mohandes and Huang will join others from the U.S. and Haiti as they evaluate the situation on the ground in terms of health care education and infrastructure.
The earthquake killed hundreds of health care students and leveled many of the facilities used to train these students.
The group will discuss possible solutions that will help facilitate better patient care and instruction of health professions students.