CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2010.  The American Medical Association announced today its new Web site registry supported by the National Disaster Life Support (NDLS) that can easily coordinate the deployment of physicians who are willing to volunteer with federal and private sector response organizations in Haiti. Physicians can sign up at www.ama-assn.org/go/haiti-volunteer.[Read More…]

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–1 February 2010.  Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operating theaters and emergency wards in Haiti are still busy. The two teams in Leogane, for instance, are carrying out an average of 30 operations each day, as are the teams at the new hospital in Carrefour. The inflatable hospital in[Read More…]

Port-au-Prince, HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–01 Feb 2010 – The Bel Air neighborhood in downtown Port-au-Prince has seen its share of troubles including poverty, high unemployment, gang violence and other social ills. But nothing prepared the usually resilient community for the earthquake that struck on January 20. Many of the residents were forced to[Read More…]

Port-au-Prince–(ENEWSPF)–1 February 2010.  To meet the enormous health challenges posed by the January 12 earthquake, Haitian authorities, United Nations agencies and donor countries have been providing tons of medicines to scores of health partners on a daily basis through a large-scale coordinated effort run out of the country’s pharmaceuticals hub[Read More…]

WESTPORT, Conn.–(ENEWSPF)–Feb. 1, 2010.  Save the Children is working quickly to uncover and gather information about 33 children reportedly stopped at the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic with members of an American organization attempting to take them out of the country illegally. Save the Children is coordinating with[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2010.  By: Robert B. Zoellick In the wake of the devastating earthquake, there has been an outpouring of international support for Haiti. The first priority has been saving lives. That means getting water, food, shelter, medicine and other basic supplies to victims. The first rush must be[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–1 February 2010 – Women must be given a key role in all aspects of the emergency relief effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti for it to be effective and to protect the human rights of the most vulnerable, a United Nations committee warned today. “The needs and capabilities of women[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–1 February 2010 – Where did you sleep last night? Where did you eat? What does your neighbourhood look like? These are some of the questions United Nations staff are asking hundreds of children in Haiti after launching a new programme to keep track of children orphaned or separated[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2010.  The American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the US, continues to recruit nurses who are interested in being considered for possible deployment to Haiti. Tafford Uniforms, an ANA member benefits partner, has donated scrubs for two separate deployment missions. In addition, they[Read More…]

The Midwest Wings raised $3500 for Haiti. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Midwest Wings Soccer Club, which is made up of about 100 young soccer players between the ages of seven and fifteen years of age, rallied behind one of their own, Nashika Nenonene, who is from Haiti and[Read More…]