Medishare staff member returns to find home destroyed

By Jennifer Browning
After seeking shelter at the government hospital in Hinche Choucoune, 45, returned to find her home and everything inside completely destroyed. Three hurricanes consecutively pummeled Haiti’s Central Plateau leaving many residents homeless.
Choucoune works as cook at Project Medishare’s clinic in Marmont. She shared her home with her three children, her mother, [...]

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Hurricane victims currently seeking shelter in area schools

An area school outside of Hinche serves as a shelter for families who have lost their homes after three hurricanes ravaged Haiti’s Central Plateau.
By Jennifer Browning
Project Medishare’s staff in Haiti has reported that more than 1000 families around Haiti’s Central Plateau are suffering from the damage of three recent hurricanes that ravaged the tiny country [...]

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Recent hurricanes bash Haiti’s Central Plateau

photo courtesty of Partners in Health

By Jennifer Browning
Hurricanes Faye, Gustav and Hanna have ravaged many of the areas Project Medishare serves in Haiti’s Central Plateau. Project Medishare and its staff have been personally affected by these storms and after spending the past days providing for their own families they have been able to sen the [...]

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Dr. Fournier featured on The Huffington Post

One of Project Medishare’s founders, Dr. Arthur Fournier responded to the ABC Nightline special about sex trade in Haiti on The Huffington Post. Dr. Fournier speaks about the issues of this modern form of slavery. Project Medishare and The Global Institute at the University of Miami recognized the importance of addressing these root causes a [...]

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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. Bayar 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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Waiting in Hinche

Valcourt Napoleon, 42, waits patiently the end of his bed in a ward in the Henche Hospital. Emory doctors found Napoleon suffered from an enlarged prostate as well as a hernia. Photo by Jennifer Browning.

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