By Jennifer Browning Project Medishare/UM Global Institute was the first medical trauma team on the ground arriving Wednesday afternoon. Currently, the team has been working at UN Headquarters set up at the Port-au-Prince airport. Here, at a makeshift hospital, the organizations' medical trauma teams have been...
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Read MoreThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a Family Links Website aimed at enabling persons in Haiti and abroad to register the names of relatives with whom they are striving to restore contact. It will progressively incorporate information offering responses to those...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Project Medishare/UM Global Institute wants to assure all donors that funds collected since Tuesday are being used immediately and for earthquake relief. Project Medishare, partnering with University of Miami Global Institute for Community Health and Development, were the first medical team on the ground in...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Former Miami Heat basketball player, Alonzo Mourning today announced a million dollar for dollar match for all contributions to Project Medishare/UM Global Institute on his charitable organization web site amcharities.org Mourning and former Miami Heat teammate Dwyane Wade are trying to recruit other pro...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning After experiencing much despare since Tuesday night's 7.0 earthquake, Project Medishare/UM Global Institute received good news today that the two Project Medishare staff members believed missing and presumed dead are alive. The team obtained confirmation that both have survived. There has also been word...
Read More[caption id="attachment_1085" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, (D-Fla.) left, checks in with young earthquake victim Karim Apollon, 7, at Holtz Children’s Hospital, as Karim’s mother, Tania Apollon, looks on. Photo courtesy of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine."][/caption] By Jennifer Browning Over two dozen...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning She was found today, next to a corpse in Turjua, a two-month old baby girl with severe burns, a chest injury and and broken ribs. She was brought to the Project Medishare/UM Global Institute medical trauma team to be treated. After assessing her condition,...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Emails have circulated the past two days warning people of donation scams.The Federal Bureau of Investigation has urged Internet users to be cautious and do their research before giving money to help the relief effort in Haiti. There are several ways to check legitimacy...
Read MoreFormer Miami Heat team members Alonzo Mourning and Dwyane Wade have partnered together to form``Athletes Relief Fund for Haiti,'' to rally support from the sports community to help earthquake victims in Haiti. Mourning traveled to Haiti with Project Medishare/UM Global Institute to assist with recovery and...
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