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MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR HAITI RELIEF

Volunteers are needed to help treat victims of the Haiti earthquake as part of an effort organized by WELS Committee on Relief (COR).

The COR is seeking licensed medical professionals including doctors, nurses, and physical therapists to staff a hospital in Jimani in Dominican Republic—a need identified by a WELS assessment team that traveled to the town on the border with Haiti Feb. 4. There is also a need for translators—volunteers bi-lingual in English and Spanish and/or English and French.

Currently the hospital is providing emergency, critical care, and physical therapy services for those injured in the earthquake—services not widely available in Port-au- Prince where most hospitals were destroyed. Eventually the hospital will be devoted to providing long-term rehabilitation services as the need for critical care services gradually declines.

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