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Inside Children's
A Haitian day seems a lot longer than an American day, if that is possible. We all parted for our duties at 7 a.m., after downing a cliff bar and a cup of instant coffee. Our nurses here, along with nurse practitioner Ann Ryan and former Akron pediatric resident Rachel, taught PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life [...]
Today was an unbelievable day in Haiti. Jeff worked all night in the ER. Pediatric nurse practitioner, Tracey Herstich, and critical care doctor, John Pope, covered the intensive care unit, and I was in the clinic. With the help of a medical interpreter, I saw more than 16 patients. I treated the majority of them [...]
Julie Tsirambidis, director of Akron Children’s Hospital’s Center for Advanced Practice, traveled to Haiti Oct. 22 to 28 with a contingent of other healthcare providers from the hospital. Tsirambidis, a certified nurse practitioner, is treating children at St. Damian’s Children’s Hospital and, in this blog, she shares her experiences of working in a third-world health [...]
Russell Maroni shares his experience as a healthcare missionary One year ago, Haiti was struck by a catastrophic, 7.0-magnitude earthquake. In the days that followed, reports of the devastation flooded in. More than 1,700 miles away, Russell Maroni was working as an X-ray technologist at Akron Children’s Hospital. Married with a baby on the way [...]
On Sunday, May 29, my 8-year-old son, Brandon, asked me if he could do a lemonade stand to raise money for Haiti. When I asked him why he chose Haiti, he said, “Because they had the earthquake and there are a lot of families who are hurt. They need the help. They don’t have things [...]
Saturday We spent a few hours away from Saint Damien’s Hospital. Went out to a rural village, Fondwa, which is a 2-hour drive up in the mountains. This is the village Sister Judy was living/working in when the earthquake hit. The village was destroyed. Amazing how roads are still piled with rocks and rubble; buildings still [...]
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