Author: Project Medishare
By Jennifer Browning
Dr. Barth Green just reported in to let us know the University of Miami students are working hard with Project Medishare's mobile clinic team. He sent us the above photo from his Blackberry as he stands with the Project Medishare/UM Global Institute team...
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By Jennifer Browning
During his previous trip to Haiti with former President Bill Clinton, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the students from the Haitian Education Leadership Program (HELP) that he saw them as "seeds of hope" for their country. In his article in the opinion...
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[caption id="attachment_496" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Project Medishare Program Coordinator Gabriele Denis with neurosurgical patient in Port-au-Prince. Photo by Daniel Cima."][/caption]
By Jennifer Browning
The Project Medishare neurosurgery team returned to Haiti this past Saturday for a neurological assessment at La Paix Hospital in Port-au-Prince. The team assessed 67...
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By Jennifer Browning
Recently a group of young Haitian professionals in Port-au-Prince have joined together to form the "Support Group of Project Medishare in Haiti.” The organization has dedicated themselves in assisting Project Medishare in the funding of the Akamil Production Facility in Thomonde which is...
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By Jennifer Browning
With today marking World Water Day, Project Medishare has taken on the commitment to repairing a broken water cistern in Marmont where currently the new maternity ward is also under construction.
Clean water plays an important role in not only preventing illness, but also...
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By Maureen Collins, MPH
Happy St. Josef’s Day! Today we were able to tune down what our typical day has looked like thus far. The town celebrated its 80th anniversary of St. Josef, the main church here in Thomonde. The group split up and either got...
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By Esther Molnar
Today was probably one of the most difficult days in terms of the poverty and lack of medical care that we saw. We set up clinic in a remote village at the base of the mountains. This by far was one of the...
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By Brian Curtis
Today I traveled on unpaved roads with three Master Public Health students and a Haitian doctor for 40 minutes to a school in the commune of Thomonde. The school was a typical Haitian building of thin lumber, tin roof, and a dirt...
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By Eva de Weever, MSP
HAITI'S CENTRAL PLATEAU---Today three MPH students went to a rural elementary school to conduct physical exams and administer medications (Vitamin A and Albendazole) to the students. There were roughly 150-175 students ranging from age 5-12. It was great to focus on...
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By Shivani Murthy, MPH
MARMONTE, Haiti--Today during our first day of clinic we were stationed at a school in la Bègue, which was identified by our translator, Jeff as “a very remote area within a very remote area (Marmonte).”
Over 150 people in line waiting for us...
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