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Medical volunteers learn from mistakes made in rush to Haiti

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:25:00 -0500

When the earthquake struck Haiti, doctors, nurses and medical specialists rushed to Haiti, in an effort to help. But what some of them, and some outside analysts have found is that instead of helping, some may have made the situation worse and many, perhaps even most, were totally unprepared for what they had to do.

amy blevins

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:40:39 -0500

I worked with Richard Gosselin, MD (quoted above) in Haiti with our group "Operation Rainbow"; our (35 years of international orthopedic surgery experienced) orthopedic surgical nonprofit group was asked specifically to come help:

http://www.marinij.com/ci_14249169?source=rss

We were shocked at the number of individuals (!) and groups which showed up without any supplies, whatsoever. Operation Rainbow is an experienced orthopedic surgical nonprofit, which does not normally perform disaster relief, but rallied to help by doing what we do best...and we organized six consecutive mission trips immediately after the earthquake. We bring everything we need with us on every trip to set up operating rooms and recovery rooms in Central and South American sites. Operation Rainbow travels with everything from bovie and anesthesia monitoring machines to medications, surgical instruments, implants, casting materials, etc. in each trip are orthopedic surgeons, anesthesiologists, OR RNs and techs, PACU RNs, PTs, and translators. We continue our work there.

@OpRainbowInc

For more of our story, visit:

Http://www.operationrainbow.org

https://www.google.com/search?q=operation+rainbow+san+jose&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

Amy Costello

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:18:09 -0500

Please read more comments to this story at the following link:

http://www.theworld.org/2012/10/haiti-medical-volunteers/

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:19:21 -0600

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