04-JUL-B-1

MEDICAL MISSION TO DR/HAITI THROUGH BRA AND PROJECT MEDISHARE

1. The index to the Medical Relief Mission of DR/Haiti through BRA and Project MediShare.
2. Launch medical mission for disaster relief to Dominican Republic and Haiti with team of GWU students through BRA and Project MediShare.
3. Our opening day in Jimani near the Haitian border in the mountains of the western Dominican Republic: our tour of the General Melenciano “hollow” Hospital and the devastated areas of the washout of the May 5 flood victims at Jimani.
4. The second day of our operations in Jimani, Dominican Republic with Batey Relief Alliance: our work in the hospital and in a re-settlement reconstruction for Dominican victims of flood disasters.
5. A full day of two clinic sessions at the hospital in Jimani, for an improvement in the process and one major explosion from a source who is not getting adequate respect and attention.
6. Another day and another joiner for the Haitian Creole-speakers, Dr. Serge Geffraud, as we set up for a half day clinic in the hospital in Jimani, then a half day in clinic under a tree, then a walk to and through the border with Haiti.
7. Our “off day” Saturday, begins with a return to refugee camp # 2, to see the last of our 750 patients in the DR side of our mission’s first week, then a scramble with an abrupt change in plans to leave immediately for the “long way ‘round” to cross the DR/Haitian border near Beladere.
8. Our departure from the Dominican Republic by a long ride along the barren mountain ridge of the Haiti border, to arrive after dark at Hotel Teo in Elias Pina, our last Dominican port of departure.

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