JUN-B-1

MEDICAL MISSION TO HAITI WITH PROJECT MEDISHARE

1. Jun-B-1  Index to the Haiti Medical Mission
2. The contact numbers for the Haiti trip and preparation suggestions. 
3. Launch the Haiti trip from Derwood to BWI through Fort Lauderdale FL for the Miami contingent, and join forces to prepare for the Thomonde medical mission. 
4. Welcome to Thumonde, Haiti: destination travel for Project Medishare.
5. Clinic Day One: Montmart—a poor area in the Central Plateau, and my “Women’s Health Clinic” in teaching a series of pelvic exams and pre-natal care for entry level medical students, followed by my thorough didactic tropical medicine and motivational session for “Instruction and inspiration” .
6. Clinic Day Two: Salmondare—a village not reached because of the impassable flooded river and the gumbo mud-rutted rpoads of the rainy season—but the resourceful patients crossed the river ahead of the rain to be examined in a tar paper shack as a pre-natal and gynecology “Women’s health” screening clinic continues Clinic Day Three: Cass—a rather well-designed clinic with improved performances by my freshman medical students, and a walk by an Africanesque River in gumbo mud in the rainy season.
7. Clinic Day Three:  Paradone—a makeshift screening clinic in a Catholic Church  followed by a tour of Cange hospital, concluding in a Voodoo Ceremony in Thumonde.
8. The contrast of populations from two different planets: the squalor and luxury of the Port au Prince capital of Haiti—where the rich get richer.
9. Aboard the delayed American Airlines A-300 Airbus from Port au Prince to Miami.
10. A Miami layover enroute for return between one world of undernourished kids through another world of bulimia and obesity and other consumerism.

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