No hands but yours: Medical Disaster Relief after the Haitian Earthquake

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April Perry

Nov 2, 2011

April Perry has worked in Haiti for over 10 years, leading short term medical missionaries as wel las founding and chairing a christian non profit which promotes public health initiatives in rural areas and urban slums in haiti. She was part of a first response medical relief team with North Carolina Baptist Men's Dissaster Relief Organziation arriving only 6 days after the earthquake, the modern worlds worst natural disaster. She worked in two hospitals providing first response disaster medical care. this session will describe the conditions she found in Haiti, her work providing medical care in disaster conditions as well as the issues related to providing disaster medical care in the third world.

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