Atlanta photographer meets another Haiti

By Nick Vitone
I recently traveled to Haiti to photograph a team of medical students and professionals from Emory University who were working on partnership with Project Medishare.  The trip was designed to offer surgeries to patients in the central plateau, who might not otherwise be able to improve their health.
For me, the first trip to [...]

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A chance for life

By Jennifer Browning
HINCHE, Haiti– As she was bathing her 4-year-old daughter in early June, Iralande Ulyss began noticing a walnut sized lump on her daughter’s back hip. The lump was palpable and firm to the touch. Three weeks later the mass had grown larger than a cantaloupe. Concerned for her daughter, Iralande brought Roselande to [...]

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Doctors perform a rare surgery

By Jennifer Browning
HINCHE, Haiti— “In God’s hands…..”
This is how 22-year-old Jean Massenat views his life.
Walking alongside the road in Carrefour Marin outside of Port-Au-Prince, Jean turned to the screams behind him where seven others were running, warning him to get out of the way. Barreling toward him was a tap-tap carrying a load of passengers. [...]

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Elephantiasis patient returns for follow-up

By Jennifer Browning
HINCHE, Haiti—When Nicholas George walked into the government hospital last year, he showed a noticeable mass underneath his long shorts.
George, diagnosed with elephantiasis of the groin, had been carrying the 35 pound mass for 17 years. Zanmi Lasante Hospital in Cange referred him to Project Medishare’s surgical team who were working here in [...]

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Emory surgical team returns to Hinche

By Jennifer Browning
HINCHE, Haiti—The Emory surgical team will be performing surgeries in Hinche this week. Drs. Viraj Master and Jana MacLeod are returning with a team of doctors, nurses and medical students, many which are returning volunteers from last year’s trip.
Master and MacLeod led the surgical team partnered with Project Medishare last year. It was [...]

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Keeping it cool in the operating room

Scrubbing into observe a prostate surgery, medical student Anya Li joins the surgeons with sunglasses. On the last day of surgery, the team ran out of the surgical masks with face shields so students wore sunglasses to keep their eyes protected. The surgical team completed 15 surgeries. Photo by Jennifer Browning.

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Getting back to a normal life

Nicholas George, 46, traveled to Hinche in hopes for a surgery that would remove his elephatiasis. George who has lived with his condition for 17 years was referred by Zanmi Lasante hospital in Cange. Photo by Jennifer Browning.
By Jennifer Browning
As he walked into the hospital there was something unusual people noticed about 46-year-old Nicholas George. [...]

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A global community effort toward success

Working late night in Hinche, Dr. Jana MacLeod along with Dr. Viraj Master work to remove a patient’s prostate, while medical students Josh Ziperstein and Rachel Webman observe. It took a combination of local support from the Hinche hospital staff, monetary and equipment donations to make the surgical trip a success. Photo by Jennifer Browning.
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Nursing graduate enjoys working with Emory team

Mathe Alie Bayard reaches for the sterile gauze as she assists the team with redressing a patient after surgery. Bayard recently finished nursing school in Port-au-Prince where she will officially graduate on Sunday. Photo by Jennifer Browning.
By Jennifer Browning
Before Mathe Alie Bayard donning her cap and gown at her nurse’s school, the Port-au-Prince nurse is [...]

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Check out Emory surgical trip images on Flickr

Emergency room Dr. Rick Spurlock and Emory medical student Anya Li prepare a patient for surgery. Photo by Jennifer Browning.
By Jennifer Browning
Hinche, HAITI–Although we are in Haiti’s central plateau far from most of the comforts we are familiar with in the U.S. We still have a little internet once in a while to upload and [...]

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