Holy Name Strives to Improve Health Care in Haiti
Holy Name has been working to help the Hôpital Sacré Coeur help the people of disaster and poverty stricken Milot, Haiti, and hopes to raise support for the effort with a new public television program.
Give a man a fish, the old proverb says, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. That’s the idea behind Holy Name Medical Center’s work with the Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti, the subject of a One on One with Steve Adubato program premiered at the Teaneck hospital Wednesday night. Dr. Dave Butler, an OB/GYN in private practice and the chairman of the CRUDEM foundation, first visited the hospital in Milot in 1992 and has traveled back to Haiti multiple times a year since to bring medical supplies and treat patients there. “Preventive medicine doesn’t exist there,” said Butler. “Part of our goal is to educate Haitian physicians.” The 25-year-old local hospital he says, needs updated equipment …
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Jenny
7:49 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
A girl that works in our office goes back to Haiti each year for the same reason that you gave....she got "Hooked" on going and helping and comes back with the best stories of the people there. Keep up the good work. http://www.trifectamedicalsupply.com/ more ›