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New York Team Rescues Children in Haiti

January 21st, 2010 · No Comments

MYFOX New York is reporting that a New York City based Police/Fire Department team pulled two children alive from the remains of a two-story building in Haiti on Tuesday.
The children appeared to be severely dehydrated but remarkably well otherwise. The rescuers hurried the 8-year-old boy and the 10-year-old girl to the only fully operating hospital [...]

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Hospital for Special Surgery Team Helping in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

January 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Crains New York is reporting that a team of nine doctors, as well as additional staff from the Hospital for Special Surgery arrived in the Haitian capital over the weekend on a borrowed corporate jet.
“The volunteers, apparently the first group of New York physicians to arrive on a hospital-sponsored mission, mobilized quickly after the chief [...]

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Tags: Hospital for Special Surgery · Israel · New York · Synthes · haiti