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...Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Cranmer, assistant professor of global health and population at the Harvard School of Public Health, used their many years of experience in dealing with worldwide crises to mobilize the volunteers, resources, and supplies needed to set up a fully functional rehabilitation clinic in less than a week...
Cranmer and Rosborough planned to run the clinic for a minimum of six months before turning it over completely to local management, but they now think that they will likely remain in charge for a year. Their goal is “true re-integration” of the hospital into Haitian hands—rather than “just packing up and saying bye,” Cranmer said...
Volunteers from the hospital also staff a small clinic at the camp to provide basic care and OB/GYN services, Cranmer said...
...Rohingya who have been beaten and raped. "[Border guards] broke my fingers and then they threw me into the river and told me to swim back," says Ziaur Rahman, a 23-year-old who managed to escape and walk for three days to get medical care at the MSF clinic based outside the Kutu Palong makeshift camp. (Read about visiting the Rohingya in Burma...
...This week, Relief International doctors at a field clinic in a hard-hit suburb of the capital encountered a woman who only a few days before had found an infant abandoned in an open-air latrine. The NGO contacted UNICEF, which is registering the baby and conducting a search through various media, like radio, for her family. What's more, even though the woman who found her is poor, she has been allowed to care for the infant under the UNICEF network's supervision - largely because experts like de la Soudiere says it's often a better option to keep...