Rotary District 6990 - Project Medishare: Akamil Update

Senior leaders of Rotary International’s District 6990, which comprises southeast Florida and Grand Bahama Island, have presented a $70,000 grant commitment to Drs. Barth Green and Arthur Fournier of the University of Miami. Green and Fournier, founders of Project Medishare for Haiti, Inc., a Florida 501c3, will use the funds to provide training and equipment in the areas of radiology, ophthalmology, and laboratory work essential to providing urgent care to critically injured and ill patients at the Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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This is the second time RI District 6990 has partnered with Project Medishare (PM) to fund work in Haiti. In 2007, the Zone 34 Rotary District gave Project Medishare $107,733 towards their nutrition program in the Central Plateau of Haiti, the poorest area of the country.

“We are proud to be partnering with Project Medishare once again in their efforts towards the sustainable redevelopment of Haiti,” said Noelle A. Galperin, Rotary District 6990 Haiti Initiative Task Force Chair. “After visiting Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare, it quickly became apparent that this is an organization that is achieving ambitious goals in Haiti – training and employing Haitian doctors, nurses and health care administrators to be the future health care leaders in their country.”

Project Medishare, in partnership with the Hospital Bernard Mevs and headed up by top UM trauma care surgeon Dr. Enrique Ginzberg, runs the only trauma and critical care hospital in all of Haiti, with the only Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the country providing lifesaving care to Haiti's sickest children and premature infants. PM has cared for over 45,000 critically ill patients in the first half of 2011 alone.