Emergency earthquake appeal: Support Cuban-trained Haitian doctors
Donate online to MEDICC’s HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL.
The effects of the disastrous earthquake in Haiti will be long term. That’s why MEDICC and Global Links (Pittsburgh, PA) are sending material aid to the Cuban-trained Haitian doctors on the front lines in Haiti’s public hospitals and clinics. Now 400-strong, they were already on the ground when disaster struck, serving in 120 communities throughout the country, including the hard-hit capital of Port-au-Prince.
Graduates of the Latin American Medical School in Cuba, these doctors come from some of Haiti’s poorest regions, and will stay long after the initial disaster response is over. Like the 370 Cuban medical personnel who work with them, they are committed for the long-term to improving health and health care in Haiti.
And so are Global Links and MEDICC: together, we are organizing a recovery and long-term medical assistance program relying on decades of experience in regional material aid cooperation, and with Cuba and Haiti in particular. We will be working with representatives of the Haitian graduates of the Latin American Medical School to identify needs for medicines, medical supplies and equipment. And we will get these supplies directly to them.
While U.S. law does not allow Cuban doctors in Haiti to receive these essential medical materials — the U.S. embargo taking its toll post-disaster — MEDICC and Global Links will ensure distribution to the young Haitian physicians working in public hospitals and clinics alongside the Cuban team, seeing hundreds of patients daily.
For health’s sake…
We need your help to raise the funds for this joint effort — and to raise the policy bar by replacing hostility towards Cuba with cooperation when it comes to the health of the hemisphere — Haiti deserves nothing less. And Haiti’s young doctors need your support now.
For more information, see www.medicc.org, where you can also donate online to the HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL. Or send your check to: MEDICC, PO Box 361449, Decatur, Georgia, 30036. Note at bottom: HAITI APPEAL.
MEDICC (Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba) is a 501 (c) (3), not-for-profit organization; your donation is tax-deductible.
