Word: melendez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Lisa Salerno, director of development at Americares, "Melendez made the road smooth for us in Colombia...
...Melendez-Ortiz said he believes that all of the supplies he coordinated actually made it to the stricken area. He said larger institutions supplying the disaster region were not as successful...
Though much of his aid went to the seriously ill through major hospitals in the badly hit Tolima district, Melendez-Ortiz stressed the work done for the less seriously injured through large make-shift hospitals. "We set up campaign hospitals to give first aid to those people who were running away from their houses...
Because of the success Melendez-Ortiz had in setting up a delivery system, the Colombian government is going to follow his model in its National Hospital Delivery System...
...Melendez-Ortiz is now working on getting aid to Colombia for what he calls a "pre-emergency plan," because he says the American State Department is "pretty sure that another explosion will take place within the next week...