Each group will be on two-week tours. Northwestern Memorial Emergency Room physicians Martin Lucenti, MD and Rahul Khare, MD are among those who volunteered for deployment.<\/p>\n
Lucenti was among those who left Jan. 25 and Khare leaves Feb. 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew in my heart that going to Haiti was simply the right thing to do,\u201d says Khare.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmergency physicians are trained at wilderness medicine, which is currently the state of Haiti. We can use common appliances to bandage, splint, and reduce overall injury. A disaster, such as the earthquake in Haiti, is what we’re trained for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Khare explained that the vast majority of the injuries include crush injuries, severe dehydration, shock due to blood loss, and infected wounds.<\/p>\n
As he explains, many of these injuries can be addressed with basic treatments such as cleaning out the wound, intravenous fluids, stabilization of the fracture with a handmade splint, and antibiotics.<\/p>\n
However due to the severe deficit of clean water and healthcare workers, simple wounds have compounded into severe medical conditions.<\/p>\n
Additionally, because most hospitals and clinics have been destroyed, leaving survivors nowhere to go, clinics will need to be made to assist with on-going care for the general population.<\/p>\n
As such, as physicians start landing in Haiti, they will setup a healthcare infrastructure in Port-au-Prince, as well as the countryside.<\/p>\n
Khare estimates that volunteer physicians and nurses will be needed for months, if not years to help stabilize the healthcare infrastructure following such catastrophe.<\/p>\n
But he is hopeful about worldwide response, \u201cI believe it is being done properly and will save hundreds of thousands of lives,\u201d Khare added.<\/p>\n
In its fundraising efforts, hospital employees raised a total of $20,000 for Haiti relief assistance that will be administered by the Northwestern Memorial Foundation. A total of 40 Northwestern clinicians signed up to volunteer their time and personal finances to be a part of the team.<\/p>\n
This group includes orthopedic surgeons, emergency medicine, anesthesiologists, internal medicine physicians and nurses. Twenty of them speak French, three speak Creole, and 16 have international experience in developing countries.<\/p>\n
The Chicago Medical Response team is partnering with International Medical Corps (IMC; imcworldwide.org<\/a>) who will be coordinating the physicians\u2019 schedules and logistics while on the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.<\/p>\n IM is currently operating an urgent care health facility in Port-au- Prince and needs physicians and nurses.<\/p>\n The Chicago Medical Response team includes: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine; and Rush University College of Medicine.<\/p>\n If you would like to make a gift to support this trip, please visit http:\/\/foundation.nmh.org\/HaitianRelief<\/a>.<\/p>\n Next wave of clinical volunteers prepare to depart on Jan. 29 The first clinicians from Northwestern departed for Haiti Monday, Jan. 25 as part of a Chicago medical response team partially coordinated by Robert Murphy, MD, director of the Northwestern Center for Global Health at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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