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Ringer, who makes semiannual trips to Vietnam with a California-based nonprofit called Project Vietnam, says that he and other American doctors were immediately struck by the dearth of respiratory assistance equipment in the country’s neonatal units...
...while using the technology is simple, Ringer says that convincing Vietnamese doctors to adopt CPAP required Project Vietnam to overcome some obstacles...
After redesigning CPAP in 2002, Project Vietnam was able to introduce the technology in Hanoi...
After realizing the gravity of the situation in Vietnam during his mission in 2000, Ringer and his colleagues tried to convince local doctors to implement CPAP in their home country. The Project Vietnam contingent was able to garner some curiosity about CPAP through exhibitions using crude prototypes of the equipment...
...story of Charles Robert Jenkins, the U.S. Army sergeant who left his post in South Korea and fled to the communist North in 1965, will generate a lot of sympathy for him [Dec. 13]. We shouldn't forget, however, that he deserted because he was scared of going to Vietnam. Legally Jenkins will be a free man after being discharged. But knowing about the Americans who served honorably in Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq, I will have difficulty feeling any sympathy for that coward. Kazuho Baba Anaheim, California, U.S. Jenkins didn't deserve the leniency...