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Direct Relief Emergency Aid Shipment Departed for Haiti Tonight - Organization scaling up emergency infusion to treat 10,000 cholera patients
Direct Relief International has dispatched this afternoon a shipment of critically needed medical aid to Haiti in response to the cholera outbreak there. Valued at more than $60,000 (wholesale), the consignment includes more than eight tons of material, including antibiotics to treat the infection and IV supplies.
Facilities in the St. Marc area are overwhelmed with cholera patients; Partners in Health reports that its facility in St. Marc is treating 1,600 people alone. With new cases appearing near Port-au-Prince, prevention is also critical. Direct Relief also dispatched 400 hygiene kits today from our warehouse in Haiti, which are being sent to St. Marc tonight to help improve personal sanitation and prevent the spread of cholera.
Dr. Georges Dubuche, of Management Sciences for Health, described the outbreak as a "terrible situation that threatens the nation."
Direct Relief is scaling its infusion of emergency medical aid to treat approximately 10,000 people, and is collaborating with governmental and nongovernmental agencies to assist in the response. Haiti's Director of Pharmacy, Mrs. Flaurine Joseph, has extended a request for Direct Relief's assistance in responding to the outbreak. Mrs. Joseph visited Direct Relief's headquarters earlier this year to learn about and observe the tight controls on pharmaceuticals and other medical aid we provide.
Direct Relief Delivering Urgently Needed Medical Aid to Fight Cholera Outbreak in Haiti
Direct Relief International is urgently delivering needed medical aid to partners in Haiti responding to the fast-moving cholera outbreak. Partner health facilities and news reports have indicated that more than 140 people have already died in the few days since the outbreak began. While the outbreak is currently in the central plateau, about 60 miles north of Port-au-Prince, the fear is that cholera will spread quickly among the hundreds of thousands of people still living in camps after the January earthquake.
Hospital Albert Schweitzer and Partners in Health in St. Marc and St. Damien Hospital in Port-au-Prince have requested materials to treat the diarrheal disease, which can quickly become fatal as a patient becomes dehydrated. The materials include IV sets and solutions, oral rehydration solutions for adults and children, antibiotics, soap, bleach, masks, gloves, and water purification tablets.
With Direct Relief's relationships and systems put in place in response to the January 2010 earthquake, the organization is ideally positioned to expedite this urgently needed aid. Hurricane modules, which contain such items as oral rehydration solution and other appropriate products, were pre-positioned in June with Partners in Health, St. Damien Children's Hospital, and Justinian University Hospital in Cap-Haitien (north of the outbreak).
Seven ocean freight containers are in port in Haiti now, with four containing materials that can be used to help cholera patients. Direct Relief is also working to source urgently needed material to air freight to Haiti. The organization is coordinating efforts with the Haitian Ministry of Health and Georges Dubuche of Management Sciences for Health to expedite the response and save lives.
Cholera spreads through compromised water and sanitation systems; it is believed that this outbreak has originated near the Artibonite River. With more than 1,500 cases reported so far, the outbreak could reach tragic proportions if it hits the nearby camps in Port-au-Prince.
• Direct Relief International abides by the World Health Organization’s guidelines in accepting product donations. Direct Relief is a member of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) and adheres to high standards in the delivery of medical products to underserved people affected by poverty and disasters around the world.
Click here for a list of Direct Relief’s most wanted items.
Manufacturers/Distributors: Contact Anthoula Randopoulos at (805) 964-4767, ext. 153 or email arandopoulos @directrelief.org.
Healthcare Facilities: (hospitals, clinics, nursing homes): Use our online contact form or contact Sarah Eyman at (805) 964-4767, ext. 100
Individuals: We apologize, but due to California Pharmacy law, Direct Relief cannot accept medical products from individuals.
• Medical product offers are evaluated based on the specific needs of charitable health facilities and programs that Direct Relief supports worldwide. Staff evaluates these specific needs and discerns the appropriate medical products for a given situation.
• Upon approval of donation, please provide the following information before donations are shipped:
• Incoming contributions are received and housed at Direct Relief International’s warehouse in Santa Barbara. Pharmaceuticals are stored in a secure area licensed by the California State Board of Pharmacy and the Food and Drug Administration. We have licensed pharmacists on staff.
• Impact Reports are submitted to manufacturers, which identify the worldwide programs the donations are supporting.
If you have questions or require more information, please use our online contact form or call Direct Relief at (805) 964-4767.
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Two new shipments are en route to Haiti, destined for Direct Relief partners Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) and Justinian University Hospital (JUH). Located in Deschapelles and Cap-Haitien, respectively, these facilities are treating large numbers of people injured in the earthquake, and are receiving medical aid they have specifically requested to continue their crucial work.
HAS is a full-service hospital with an orthopedics practice, which has made it integral to the earthquake response. It is receiving more than $266,000 (wholesale) of targeted medical aid, including pain medications, antibiotics, medicines to treat diabetes, and more. Founded in 1957, HAS serves a patient base of about 300,000 people on a regular basis. North of Port-au-Prince, it has received an influx of patients since the earthquake.
JUH, on the north coast of Haiti in Cap-Haitien, has also received a large number of patients injured in the earthquake as people have migrated out of the damage zone. It is receiving a consignment valued at more than $66,000 (wholesale), containing surgical supplies, wound-care supplies, antibiotics, and other needed medicines to support its expanded patient care.
Direct Relief staff members are on the ground in Haiti managing logistics and resupply on behalf of our partners there. This assistance allows partner healthcare providers to focus on treating patients, and means they get the supplies, medicines and equipment they need in an expedited manner.
• Partners in Health, which is operating a temporary facility out of the partially damaged General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
• St. Damien Hospital, a full-service pediatric facility in Port-au-Prince, where patients of all ages spilled out into every square inch of the courtyard to receive care.
• Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, a surgical hospital in Deschapelles with orthopedic surgical capability. The hospital has been caring for a large number of people injured in the quake.
• Justinian University Hospital, a full-service facility in Cap-Haitien, which has received an influx of patients escaping the damage zone and seeking medical care.
• MOSCTHA, a humanitarian group providing aid to Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. It dispatched a mobile medical van to the Haitian border to assist earthquake survivors streaming out of the damage zone.
In response of challenging logistics in Haiti, Direct Relief sent two staff members to Port-au-Prince immediately after the quake struck to manage logistics and ensure delivery of critically needed materials to our partners. On the heels of that advance team’s successes, a second team is deploying to Haiti this weekend to continue those efforts.
In addition to extraordinary support from FedEx in transportation and logistics, Direct Relief has identified and equipped groups that have chartered planes to “hand-deliver” aid.
• J/P Haitian Relief Organization, a team of 20 doctors specializing in emergency and trauma medicine, have dispatched critically needed consignments on chartered planes, for use at Partners in Health’s emergency facility.
• Yayasan Bumi Sehat (YBS), an Indonesia-based healthcare organization with expertise in midwifery and obstetrics/gynecology, set off for Jacmel, Haiti, with Direct Relief materials in hand to assist the injured there. YBS responded extensively to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and is a trusted partner in emergency response.
Direct Relief is also developing long-term recovery plans for the earthquake response. Experience with other earthquakes (China 2008, Pakistan 2005) proves that rehabilitation and prosthetic support will be crucial in the coming months to help Haitians recover their mobility and independence after amputations and other traumatic injuries. Plans are underway to provide appropriate support.
Direct Relief has a deep commitment to help the people of Haiti recover from this devastating event; it informs all of our actions. Donors of all types, from corporations to foundations, to individuals, have been extremely generous in supporting Haiti relief.
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
Sat Nov 06 16:03:55 +0000 2010 by LTel:notes: http://www.directrelief.org/SupportUs/CorporateGiving/DonateMedicalProducts.aspx
Donate Medical Products
Quality healthcare, supported by complex medical technology, is not available to everyone. Through Direct Relief International, manufacturers, distributors, and medical facilities are donating to health institutions serving the poor and disaster-affected worldwide.
How the Product Donations Program Works:
• Direct Relief International is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and provides contributors with documentation for tax purposes.
• Direct Relief International abides by the World Health Organization’s guidelines in accepting product donations. Direct Relief is a member of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) and adheres to high standards in the delivery of medical products to underserved people affected by poverty and disasters around the world.
Click here for a list of Direct Relief’s most wanted items.
Manufacturers/Distributors: Contact Anthoula Randopoulos at (805) 964-4767, ext. 153 or email arandopoulos @directrelief.org.
Healthcare Facilities: (hospitals, clinics, nursing homes): Use our online contact form or contact Sarah Eyman at (805) 964-4767, ext. 100
Individuals: We apologize, but due to California Pharmacy law, Direct Relief cannot accept medical products from individuals.
• Medical product offers are evaluated based on the specific needs of charitable health facilities and programs that Direct Relief supports worldwide. Staff evaluates these specific needs and discerns the appropriate medical products for a given situation.
• Upon approval of donation, please provide the following information before donations are shipped:
1.Product Name
2.NDC/Product Number
3.Product Description
4.Lot Number (if available)
5.Unit (include per case)
6.Quantity
7.Expiration Dates (if any)
• Incoming contributions are received and housed at Direct Relief International’s warehouse in Santa Barbara. Pharmaceuticals are stored in a secure area licensed by the California State Board of Pharmacy and the Food and Drug Administration. We have licensed pharmacists on staff.
• Impact Reports are submitted to manufacturers, which identify the worldwide programs the donations are supporting.
If you have questions or require more information, please use our online contact form or call Direct Relief at (805) 964-4767.
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Source at:
http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx
Direct Relief staff in Port-au-Prince managing logistics, supplies to partners
February 2, 2010
Two new shipments are en route to Haiti, destined for Direct Relief partners Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) and Justinian University Hospital (JUH). Located in Deschapelles and Cap-Haitien, respectively, these facilities are treating large numbers of people injured in the earthquake, and are receiving medical aid they have specifically requested to continue their crucial work.
HAS is a full-service hospital with an orthopedics practice, which has made it integral to the earthquake response. It is receiving more than $266,000 (wholesale) of targeted medical aid, including pain medications, antibiotics, medicines to treat diabetes, and more. Founded in 1957, HAS serves a patient base of about 300,000 people on a regular basis. North of Port-au-Prince, it has received an influx of patients since the earthquake.
JUH, on the north coast of Haiti in Cap-Haitien, has also received a large number of patients injured in the earthquake as people have migrated out of the damage zone. It is receiving a consignment valued at more than $66,000 (wholesale), containing surgical supplies, wound-care supplies, antibiotics, and other needed medicines to support its expanded patient care.
Direct Relief staff members are on the ground in Haiti managing logistics and resupply on behalf of our partners there. This assistance allows partner healthcare providers to focus on treating patients, and means they get the supplies, medicines and equipment they need in an expedited manner.
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Jan 27, 2010
Key partners include:
• Partners in Health, which is operating a temporary facility out of the partially damaged General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
• St. Damien Hospital, a full-service pediatric facility in Port-au-Prince, where patients of all ages spilled out into every square inch of the courtyard to receive care.
• Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, a surgical hospital in Deschapelles with orthopedic surgical capability. The hospital has been caring for a large number of people injured in the quake.
• Justinian University Hospital, a full-service facility in Cap-Haitien, which has received an influx of patients escaping the damage zone and seeking medical care.
• MOSCTHA, a humanitarian group providing aid to Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. It dispatched a mobile medical van to the Haitian border to assist earthquake survivors streaming out of the damage zone.
In response of challenging logistics in Haiti, Direct Relief sent two staff members to Port-au-Prince immediately after the quake struck to manage logistics and ensure delivery of critically needed materials to our partners. On the heels of that advance team’s successes, a second team is deploying to Haiti this weekend to continue those efforts.
In addition to extraordinary support from FedEx in transportation and logistics, Direct Relief has identified and equipped groups that have chartered planes to “hand-deliver” aid.
• J/P Haitian Relief Organization, a team of 20 doctors specializing in emergency and trauma medicine, have dispatched critically needed consignments on chartered planes, for use at Partners in Health’s emergency facility.
• Yayasan Bumi Sehat (YBS), an Indonesia-based healthcare organization with expertise in midwifery and obstetrics/gynecology, set off for Jacmel, Haiti, with Direct Relief materials in hand to assist the injured there. YBS responded extensively to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and is a trusted partner in emergency response.
Direct Relief is also developing long-term recovery plans for the earthquake response. Experience with other earthquakes (China 2008, Pakistan 2005) proves that rehabilitation and prosthetic support will be crucial in the coming months to help Haitians recover their mobility and independence after amputations and other traumatic injuries. Plans are underway to provide appropriate support.
Direct Relief has a deep commitment to help the people of Haiti recover from this devastating event; it informs all of our actions. Donors of all types, from corporations to foundations, to individuals, have been extremely generous in supporting Haiti relief.
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FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
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VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
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FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
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Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. -> Direct Relief Emergency Aid Shipment Departed for Haiti Tonight - Organization scaling up emergency infusion to treat 10,000 cholera patients
Source: Direct Relief International
Date: 22 Oct 2010
October 22, 2010 - 5 pm
Direct Relief International has dispatched this afternoon a shipment of critically needed medical aid to Haiti in response to the cholera outbreak there. Valued at more than $60,000 (wholesale), the consignment includes more than eight tons of material, including antibiotics to treat the infection and IV supplies.
Facilities in the St. Marc area are overwhelmed with cholera patients; Partners in Health reports that its facility in St. Marc is treating 1,600 people alone. With new cases appearing near Port-au-Prince, prevention is also critical. Direct Relief also dispatched 400 hygiene kits today from our warehouse in Haiti, which are being sent to St. Marc tonight to help improve personal sanitation and prevent the spread of cholera.
Dr. Georges Dubuche, of Management Sciences for Health, described the outbreak as a "terrible situation that threatens the nation."
Direct Relief is scaling its infusion of emergency medical aid to treat approximately 10,000 people, and is collaborating with governmental and nongovernmental agencies to assist in the response. Haiti's Director of Pharmacy, Mrs. Flaurine Joseph, has extended a request for Direct Relief's assistance in responding to the outbreak. Mrs. Joseph visited Direct Relief's headquarters earlier this year to learn about and observe the tight controls on pharmaceuticals and other medical aid we provide.
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Direct Relief Delivering Urgently Needed Medical Aid to Fight Cholera Outbreak in Haiti
October 22, 2010
Direct Relief International is urgently delivering needed medical aid to partners in Haiti responding to the fast-moving cholera outbreak. Partner health facilities and news reports have indicated that more than 140 people have already died in the few days since the outbreak began. While the outbreak is currently in the central plateau, about 60 miles north of Port-au-Prince, the fear is that cholera will spread quickly among the hundreds of thousands of people still living in camps after the January earthquake.
Hospital Albert Schweitzer and Partners in Health in St. Marc and St. Damien Hospital in Port-au-Prince have requested materials to treat the diarrheal disease, which can quickly become fatal as a patient becomes dehydrated. The materials include IV sets and solutions, oral rehydration solutions for adults and children, antibiotics, soap, bleach, masks, gloves, and water purification tablets.
With Direct Relief's relationships and systems put in place in response to the January 2010 earthquake, the organization is ideally positioned to expedite this urgently needed aid. Hurricane modules, which contain such items as oral rehydration solution and other appropriate products, were pre-positioned in June with Partners in Health, St. Damien Children's Hospital, and Justinian University Hospital in Cap-Haitien (north of the outbreak).
Seven ocean freight containers are in port in Haiti now, with four containing materials that can be used to help cholera patients. Direct Relief is also working to source urgently needed material to air freight to Haiti. The organization is coordinating efforts with the Haitian Ministry of Health and Georges Dubuche of Management Sciences for Health to expedite the response and save lives.
Cholera spreads through compromised water and sanitation systems; it is believed that this outbreak has originated near the Artibonite River. With more than 1,500 cases reported so far, the outbreak could reach tragic proportions if it hits the nearby camps in Port-au-Prince.
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http://www.directrelief.org/SupportUs/CorporateGiving/DonateMedicalProducts.aspx
Donate Medical Products
Quality healthcare, supported by complex medical technology, is not available to everyone. Through Direct Relief International, manufacturers, distributors, and medical facilities are donating to health institutions serving the poor and disaster-affected worldwide.
How the Product Donations Program Works:
• Direct Relief International is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and provides contributors with documentation for tax purposes.
• Direct Relief International abides by the World Health Organization’s guidelines in accepting product donations. Direct Relief is a member of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) and adheres to high standards in the delivery of medical products to underserved people affected by poverty and disasters around the world.
Click here for a list of Direct Relief’s most wanted items.
Manufacturers/Distributors: Contact Anthoula Randopoulos at (805) 964-4767, ext. 153 or email arandopoulos @directrelief.org.
Healthcare Facilities: (hospitals, clinics, nursing homes): Use our online contact form or contact Sarah Eyman at (805) 964-4767, ext. 100
Individuals: We apologize, but due to California Pharmacy law, Direct Relief cannot accept medical products from individuals.
• Medical product offers are evaluated based on the specific needs of charitable health facilities and programs that Direct Relief supports worldwide. Staff evaluates these specific needs and discerns the appropriate medical products for a given situation.
• Upon approval of donation, please provide the following information before donations are shipped:
1.Product Name
2.NDC/Product Number
3.Product Description
4.Lot Number (if available)
5.Unit (include per case)
6.Quantity
7.Expiration Dates (if any)
• Incoming contributions are received and housed at Direct Relief International’s warehouse in Santa Barbara. Pharmaceuticals are stored in a secure area licensed by the California State Board of Pharmacy and the Food and Drug Administration. We have licensed pharmacists on staff.
• Impact Reports are submitted to manufacturers, which identify the worldwide programs the donations are supporting.
If you have questions or require more information, please use our online contact form or call Direct Relief at (805) 964-4767.
----------------------------------------------------------
Source at:
http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx
Direct Relief staff in Port-au-Prince managing logistics, supplies to partners
February 2, 2010
Two new shipments are en route to Haiti, destined for Direct Relief partners Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) and Justinian University Hospital (JUH). Located in Deschapelles and Cap-Haitien, respectively, these facilities are treating large numbers of people injured in the earthquake, and are receiving medical aid they have specifically requested to continue their crucial work.
HAS is a full-service hospital with an orthopedics practice, which has made it integral to the earthquake response. It is receiving more than $266,000 (wholesale) of targeted medical aid, including pain medications, antibiotics, medicines to treat diabetes, and more. Founded in 1957, HAS serves a patient base of about 300,000 people on a regular basis. North of Port-au-Prince, it has received an influx of patients since the earthquake.
JUH, on the north coast of Haiti in Cap-Haitien, has also received a large number of patients injured in the earthquake as people have migrated out of the damage zone. It is receiving a consignment valued at more than $66,000 (wholesale), containing surgical supplies, wound-care supplies, antibiotics, and other needed medicines to support its expanded patient care.
Direct Relief staff members are on the ground in Haiti managing logistics and resupply on behalf of our partners there. This assistance allows partner healthcare providers to focus on treating patients, and means they get the supplies, medicines and equipment they need in an expedited manner.
===========
Jan 27, 2010
Key partners include:
• Partners in Health, which is operating a temporary facility out of the partially damaged General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
• St. Damien Hospital, a full-service pediatric facility in Port-au-Prince, where patients of all ages spilled out into every square inch of the courtyard to receive care.
• Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, a surgical hospital in Deschapelles with orthopedic surgical capability. The hospital has been caring for a large number of people injured in the quake.
• Justinian University Hospital, a full-service facility in Cap-Haitien, which has received an influx of patients escaping the damage zone and seeking medical care.
• MOSCTHA, a humanitarian group providing aid to Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. It dispatched a mobile medical van to the Haitian border to assist earthquake survivors streaming out of the damage zone.
In response of challenging logistics in Haiti, Direct Relief sent two staff members to Port-au-Prince immediately after the quake struck to manage logistics and ensure delivery of critically needed materials to our partners. On the heels of that advance team’s successes, a second team is deploying to Haiti this weekend to continue those efforts.
In addition to extraordinary support from FedEx in transportation and logistics, Direct Relief has identified and equipped groups that have chartered planes to “hand-deliver” aid.
• J/P Haitian Relief Organization, a team of 20 doctors specializing in emergency and trauma medicine, have dispatched critically needed consignments on chartered planes, for use at Partners in Health’s emergency facility.
• Yayasan Bumi Sehat (YBS), an Indonesia-based healthcare organization with expertise in midwifery and obstetrics/gynecology, set off for Jacmel, Haiti, with Direct Relief materials in hand to assist the injured there. YBS responded extensively to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and is a trusted partner in emergency response.
Direct Relief is also developing long-term recovery plans for the earthquake response. Experience with other earthquakes (China 2008, Pakistan 2005) proves that rehabilitation and prosthetic support will be crucial in the coming months to help Haitians recover their mobility and independence after amputations and other traumatic injuries. Plans are underway to provide appropriate support.
Direct Relief has a deep commitment to help the people of Haiti recover from this devastating event; it informs all of our actions. Donors of all types, from corporations to foundations, to individuals, have been extremely generous in supporting Haiti relief.
===========
FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
----------------------------------------------------------
VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
-----------------------------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
mission: Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
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Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
(show/hide changes)Thu Feb 25 16:24:23 +0000 2010 by LTel:added internal contact
mgt_contact changed.
address: 27 S. La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
-> MAIL ADDR: 27 S. La Patera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93117
(show/hide changes)Tue Feb 16 03:19:09 +0000 2010 by LTel:name: Direct Relief International - 2010 Haiti Earthquake Response (DIST: MEDICAL SUPPLIES/MEDICATION/EQUIPMENT) -> Direct Relief International - 2010 Haiti Earthquake Response (DIST: MEDICAL SUPPLIES-EQUIPMENT/MEDICATION)
(show/hide changes)Mon Feb 15 17:16:01 +0000 2010 by LTel:name: Direct Relief International (2010 Haiti Earthquake Response) -> Direct Relief International - 2010 Haiti Earthquake Response (DIST: MEDICAL SUPPLIES/MEDICATION/EQUIPMENT)
mission:
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
-> Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
(show/hide changes)Mon Feb 15 17:15:13 +0000 2010 by LTel:notes: Source at:
http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx
Direct Relief staff in Port-au-Prince managing logistics, supplies to partners
February 2, 2010
Two new shipments are en route to Haiti, destined for Direct Relief partners Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) and Justinian University Hospital (JUH). Located in Deschapelles and Cap-Haitien, respectively, these facilities are treating large numbers of people injured in the earthquake, and are receiving medical aid they have specifically requested to continue their crucial work.
HAS is a full-service hospital with an orthopedics practice, which has made it integral to the earthquake response. It is receiving more than $266,000 (wholesale) of targeted medical aid, including pain medications, antibiotics, medicines to treat diabetes, and more. Founded in 1957, HAS serves a patient base of about 300,000 people on a regular basis. North of Port-au-Prince, it has received an influx of patients since the earthquake.
JUH, on the north coast of Haiti in Cap-Haitien, has also received a large number of patients injured in the earthquake as people have migrated out of the damage zone. It is receiving a consignment valued at more than $66,000 (wholesale), containing surgical supplies, wound-care supplies, antibiotics, and other needed medicines to support its expanded patient care.
Direct Relief staff members are on the ground in Haiti managing logistics and resupply on behalf of our partners there. This assistance allows partner healthcare providers to focus on treating patients, and means they get the supplies, medicines and equipment they need in an expedited manner.
===========
Jan 27, 2010
Key partners include:
• Partners in Health, which is operating a temporary facility out of the partially damaged General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
• St. Damien Hospital, a full-service pediatric facility in Port-au-Prince, where patients of all ages spilled out into every square inch of the courtyard to receive care.
• Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, a surgical hospital in Deschapelles with orthopedic surgical capability. The hospital has been caring for a large number of people injured in the quake.
• Justinian University Hospital, a full-service facility in Cap-Haitien, which has received an influx of patients escaping the damage zone and seeking medical care.
• MOSCTHA, a humanitarian group providing aid to Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. It dispatched a mobile medical van to the Haitian border to assist earthquake survivors streaming out of the damage zone.
In response of challenging logistics in Haiti, Direct Relief sent two staff members to Port-au-Prince immediately after the quake struck to manage logistics and ensure delivery of critically needed materials to our partners. On the heels of that advance team’s successes, a second team is deploying to Haiti this weekend to continue those efforts.
In addition to extraordinary support from FedEx in transportation and logistics, Direct Relief has identified and equipped groups that have chartered planes to “hand-deliver” aid.
• J/P Haitian Relief Organization, a team of 20 doctors specializing in emergency and trauma medicine, have dispatched critically needed consignments on chartered planes, for use at Partners in Health’s emergency facility.
• Yayasan Bumi Sehat (YBS), an Indonesia-based healthcare organization with expertise in midwifery and obstetrics/gynecology, set off for Jacmel, Haiti, with Direct Relief materials in hand to assist the injured there. YBS responded extensively to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and is a trusted partner in emergency response.
Direct Relief is also developing long-term recovery plans for the earthquake response. Experience with other earthquakes (China 2008, Pakistan 2005) proves that rehabilitation and prosthetic support will be crucial in the coming months to help Haitians recover their mobility and independence after amputations and other traumatic injuries. Plans are underway to provide appropriate support.
Direct Relief has a deep commitment to help the people of Haiti recover from this devastating event; it informs all of our actions. Donors of all types, from corporations to foundations, to individuals, have been extremely generous in supporting Haiti relief.
===========
FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
----------------------------------------------------------
VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
-----------------------------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. -> http://www.directrelief.org/SupportUs/CorporateGiving/DonateMedicalProducts.aspx
Donate Medical Products
Quality healthcare, supported by complex medical technology, is not available to everyone. Through Direct Relief International, manufacturers, distributors, and medical facilities are donating to health institutions serving the poor and disaster-affected worldwide.
How the Product Donations Program Works:
• Direct Relief International is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and provides contributors with documentation for tax purposes.
• Direct Relief International abides by the World Health Organization’s guidelines in accepting product donations. Direct Relief is a member of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) and adheres to high standards in the delivery of medical products to underserved people affected by poverty and disasters around the world.
Click here for a list of Direct Relief’s most wanted items.
Manufacturers/Distributors: Contact Anthoula Randopoulos at (805) 964-4767, ext. 153 or email arandopoulos @directrelief.org.
Healthcare Facilities: (hospitals, clinics, nursing homes): Use our online contact form or contact Sarah Eyman at (805) 964-4767, ext. 100
Individuals: We apologize, but due to California Pharmacy law, Direct Relief cannot accept medical products from individuals.
• Medical product offers are evaluated based on the specific needs of charitable health facilities and programs that Direct Relief supports worldwide. Staff evaluates these specific needs and discerns the appropriate medical products for a given situation.
• Upon approval of donation, please provide the following information before donations are shipped:
1.Product Name
2.NDC/Product Number
3.Product Description
4.Lot Number (if available)
5.Unit (include per case)
6.Quantity
7.Expiration Dates (if any)
• Incoming contributions are received and housed at Direct Relief International’s warehouse in Santa Barbara. Pharmaceuticals are stored in a secure area licensed by the California State Board of Pharmacy and the Food and Drug Administration. We have licensed pharmacists on staff.
• Impact Reports are submitted to manufacturers, which identify the worldwide programs the donations are supporting.
If you have questions or require more information, please use our online contact form or call Direct Relief at (805) 964-4767.
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Source at:
http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx
Direct Relief staff in Port-au-Prince managing logistics, supplies to partners
February 2, 2010
Two new shipments are en route to Haiti, destined for Direct Relief partners Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) and Justinian University Hospital (JUH). Located in Deschapelles and Cap-Haitien, respectively, these facilities are treating large numbers of people injured in the earthquake, and are receiving medical aid they have specifically requested to continue their crucial work.
HAS is a full-service hospital with an orthopedics practice, which has made it integral to the earthquake response. It is receiving more than $266,000 (wholesale) of targeted medical aid, including pain medications, antibiotics, medicines to treat diabetes, and more. Founded in 1957, HAS serves a patient base of about 300,000 people on a regular basis. North of Port-au-Prince, it has received an influx of patients since the earthquake.
JUH, on the north coast of Haiti in Cap-Haitien, has also received a large number of patients injured in the earthquake as people have migrated out of the damage zone. It is receiving a consignment valued at more than $66,000 (wholesale), containing surgical supplies, wound-care supplies, antibiotics, and other needed medicines to support its expanded patient care.
Direct Relief staff members are on the ground in Haiti managing logistics and resupply on behalf of our partners there. This assistance allows partner healthcare providers to focus on treating patients, and means they get the supplies, medicines and equipment they need in an expedited manner.
===========
Jan 27, 2010
Key partners include:
• Partners in Health, which is operating a temporary facility out of the partially damaged General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
• St. Damien Hospital, a full-service pediatric facility in Port-au-Prince, where patients of all ages spilled out into every square inch of the courtyard to receive care.
• Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, a surgical hospital in Deschapelles with orthopedic surgical capability. The hospital has been caring for a large number of people injured in the quake.
• Justinian University Hospital, a full-service facility in Cap-Haitien, which has received an influx of patients escaping the damage zone and seeking medical care.
• MOSCTHA, a humanitarian group providing aid to Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. It dispatched a mobile medical van to the Haitian border to assist earthquake survivors streaming out of the damage zone.
In response of challenging logistics in Haiti, Direct Relief sent two staff members to Port-au-Prince immediately after the quake struck to manage logistics and ensure delivery of critically needed materials to our partners. On the heels of that advance team’s successes, a second team is deploying to Haiti this weekend to continue those efforts.
In addition to extraordinary support from FedEx in transportation and logistics, Direct Relief has identified and equipped groups that have chartered planes to “hand-deliver” aid.
• J/P Haitian Relief Organization, a team of 20 doctors specializing in emergency and trauma medicine, have dispatched critically needed consignments on chartered planes, for use at Partners in Health’s emergency facility.
• Yayasan Bumi Sehat (YBS), an Indonesia-based healthcare organization with expertise in midwifery and obstetrics/gynecology, set off for Jacmel, Haiti, with Direct Relief materials in hand to assist the injured there. YBS responded extensively to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and is a trusted partner in emergency response.
Direct Relief is also developing long-term recovery plans for the earthquake response. Experience with other earthquakes (China 2008, Pakistan 2005) proves that rehabilitation and prosthetic support will be crucial in the coming months to help Haitians recover their mobility and independence after amputations and other traumatic injuries. Plans are underway to provide appropriate support.
Direct Relief has a deep commitment to help the people of Haiti recover from this devastating event; it informs all of our actions. Donors of all types, from corporations to foundations, to individuals, have been extremely generous in supporting Haiti relief.
===========
FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
----------------------------------------------------------
VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
-----------------------------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
organization: -> Medical, Humanitarian Aid
mission:
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
->
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
(show/hide changes)Mon Feb 15 17:12:51 +0000 2010 by LTel:added notes/needs/avails/mission
mission: ->
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
(show/hide changes)Wed Feb 10 21:12:09 +0000 2010 by DNug:notes: Source at:
http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx
Direct Relief staff in Port-au-Prince managing logistics, supplies to partners
February 2, 2010
Two new shipments are en route to Haiti, destined for Direct Relief partners Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) and Justinian University Hospital (JUH). Located in Deschapelles and Cap-Haitien, respectively, these facilities are treating large numbers of people injured in the earthquake, and are receiving medical aid they have specifically requested to continue their crucial work.
HAS is a full-service hospital with an orthopedics practice, which has made it integral to the earthquake response. It is receiving more than $266,000 (wholesale) of targeted medical aid, including pain medications, antibiotics, medicines to treat diabetes, and more. Founded in 1957, HAS serves a patient base of about 300,000 people on a regular basis. North of Port-au-Prince, it has received an influx of patients since the earthquake.
JUH, on the north coast of Haiti in Cap-Haitien, has also received a large number of patients injured in the earthquake as people have migrated out of the damage zone. It is receiving a consignment valued at more than $66,000 (wholesale), containing surgical supplies, wound-care supplies, antibiotics, and other needed medicines to support its expanded patient care.
Direct Relief staff members are on the ground in Haiti managing logistics and resupply on behalf of our partners there. This assistance allows partner healthcare providers to focus on treating patients, and means they get the supplies, medicines and equipment they need in an expedited manner.
--------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
----------------------------------------------------------
VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
-----------------------------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. -> Source at:
http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx
Direct Relief staff in Port-au-Prince managing logistics, supplies to partners
February 2, 2010
Two new shipments are en route to Haiti, destined for Direct Relief partners Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) and Justinian University Hospital (JUH). Located in Deschapelles and Cap-Haitien, respectively, these facilities are treating large numbers of people injured in the earthquake, and are receiving medical aid they have specifically requested to continue their crucial work.
HAS is a full-service hospital with an orthopedics practice, which has made it integral to the earthquake response. It is receiving more than $266,000 (wholesale) of targeted medical aid, including pain medications, antibiotics, medicines to treat diabetes, and more. Founded in 1957, HAS serves a patient base of about 300,000 people on a regular basis. North of Port-au-Prince, it has received an influx of patients since the earthquake.
JUH, on the north coast of Haiti in Cap-Haitien, has also received a large number of patients injured in the earthquake as people have migrated out of the damage zone. It is receiving a consignment valued at more than $66,000 (wholesale), containing surgical supplies, wound-care supplies, antibiotics, and other needed medicines to support its expanded patient care.
Direct Relief staff members are on the ground in Haiti managing logistics and resupply on behalf of our partners there. This assistance allows partner healthcare providers to focus on treating patients, and means they get the supplies, medicines and equipment they need in an expedited manner.
===========
Jan 27, 2010
Key partners include:
• Partners in Health, which is operating a temporary facility out of the partially damaged General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
• St. Damien Hospital, a full-service pediatric facility in Port-au-Prince, where patients of all ages spilled out into every square inch of the courtyard to receive care.
• Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, a surgical hospital in Deschapelles with orthopedic surgical capability. The hospital has been caring for a large number of people injured in the quake.
• Justinian University Hospital, a full-service facility in Cap-Haitien, which has received an influx of patients escaping the damage zone and seeking medical care.
• MOSCTHA, a humanitarian group providing aid to Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic. It dispatched a mobile medical van to the Haitian border to assist earthquake survivors streaming out of the damage zone.
In response of challenging logistics in Haiti, Direct Relief sent two staff members to Port-au-Prince immediately after the quake struck to manage logistics and ensure delivery of critically needed materials to our partners. On the heels of that advance team’s successes, a second team is deploying to Haiti this weekend to continue those efforts.
In addition to extraordinary support from FedEx in transportation and logistics, Direct Relief has identified and equipped groups that have chartered planes to “hand-deliver” aid.
• J/P Haitian Relief Organization, a team of 20 doctors specializing in emergency and trauma medicine, have dispatched critically needed consignments on chartered planes, for use at Partners in Health’s emergency facility.
• Yayasan Bumi Sehat (YBS), an Indonesia-based healthcare organization with expertise in midwifery and obstetrics/gynecology, set off for Jacmel, Haiti, with Direct Relief materials in hand to assist the injured there. YBS responded extensively to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and is a trusted partner in emergency response.
Direct Relief is also developing long-term recovery plans for the earthquake response. Experience with other earthquakes (China 2008, Pakistan 2005) proves that rehabilitation and prosthetic support will be crucial in the coming months to help Haitians recover their mobility and independence after amputations and other traumatic injuries. Plans are underway to provide appropriate support.
Direct Relief has a deep commitment to help the people of Haiti recover from this devastating event; it informs all of our actions. Donors of all types, from corporations to foundations, to individuals, have been extremely generous in supporting Haiti relief.
===========
FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
----------------------------------------------------------
VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
-----------------------------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
(show/hide changes)Wed Feb 10 21:07:18 +0000 2010 by DNug:main_phone: -> (805) 964-4767
(show/hide changes)Wed Feb 10 21:05:10 +0000 2010 by DNug:corrected name, adjusted/added notes to fix duplicate
address: -> 27 S. La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
(show/hide changes)Wed Feb 10 21:03:55 +0000 2010 by DNug:notes: FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
----------------------------------------------------------
VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
-----------------------------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. -> Source at:
http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2010/EarthquakeHaiti.aspx
Direct Relief staff in Port-au-Prince managing logistics, supplies to partners
February 2, 2010
Two new shipments are en route to Haiti, destined for Direct Relief partners Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) and Justinian University Hospital (JUH). Located in Deschapelles and Cap-Haitien, respectively, these facilities are treating large numbers of people injured in the earthquake, and are receiving medical aid they have specifically requested to continue their crucial work.
HAS is a full-service hospital with an orthopedics practice, which has made it integral to the earthquake response. It is receiving more than $266,000 (wholesale) of targeted medical aid, including pain medications, antibiotics, medicines to treat diabetes, and more. Founded in 1957, HAS serves a patient base of about 300,000 people on a regular basis. North of Port-au-Prince, it has received an influx of patients since the earthquake.
JUH, on the north coast of Haiti in Cap-Haitien, has also received a large number of patients injured in the earthquake as people have migrated out of the damage zone. It is receiving a consignment valued at more than $66,000 (wholesale), containing surgical supplies, wound-care supplies, antibiotics, and other needed medicines to support its expanded patient care.
Direct Relief staff members are on the ground in Haiti managing logistics and resupply on behalf of our partners there. This assistance allows partner healthcare providers to focus on treating patients, and means they get the supplies, medicines and equipment they need in an expedited manner.
--------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
----------------------------------------------------------
VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
-----------------------------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
(show/hide changes)Wed Feb 10 21:00:53 +0000 2010 by DNug:name: Disaster Relief International (2010 Haiti Earthquake Response) -> Direct Relief International (2010 Haiti Earthquake Response)
cat_notes: 1/19/10 Hey Lesilie, The link below did not appear to match the info in this record so I searched for the appropriate link. I THINK IT is what you were using?!??! I'll use the update item so you can review this?!?!? HOPE YOU DON"T MIND!!
http://cookiesinheaven.blogspot.com/ -> 2/10/10 - Thanks Laura! (ITS ALL IN THE NAME)
Leslie... I changed the name on this one.... so its correct and will now delete what wound up as a duplicate due to wrong name... just so you know!
http://cookiesinheaven.blogspot.com/
(show/hide changes)Tue Jan 19 23:36:39 +0000 2010 by DNug:region: Haiti, Carribean -> Haiti, Caribbean
website: http://cookiesinheaven.blogspot.com/ -> http://www.directrelief.org/
cat_notes: -> 1/19/10 Hey Lesilie, The link below did not appear to match the info in this record so I searched for the appropriate link. I THINK IT is what you were using?!??! I'll use the update item so you can review this?!?!? HOPE YOU DON"T MIND!!
http://cookiesinheaven.blogspot.com/
(show/hide changes)Thu Jan 14 19:42:48 +0000 2010 by LTel:added notes
notes: VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
-----------------------------------
FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
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Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. -> FROM THE WEBSITE:
FedEx to Airlift $2 Million in Medical Aid to Haiti
January 13, 2010
With the staggering scale of human tragedy becoming more clear, Direct Relief extends our deepest sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones in Haiti.
To assist survivors, the organization’s emergency response team is arranging an emergency airlift containing over $2 million in medicines and medical supplies that will depart Friday.
The aid consignment will be transported by FedEx, a major contributor to Direct Relief’s emergency response work, which is again donating its legendary logistics expertise as well as airlift for the consignment.
Though communications interruptions in and out of Haiti persist, partners have reported that their facilities have sustained damage but are operational.
The emergency consignments include materials for trauma and wound care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, water-purification products, and oral-rehydration solutions.
The consignment departing Friday is for the emergency medical response efforts being conducted by Partners in Health, which has set up a temporary headquarters in the main hospital in Port-au-Prince, and has committed additional staff to the relief effort; and St. Damien Children’s Hospital, which sustained damage to its building (and, tragically, lost two volunteers to earthquake damage at their homes) but is continuing to treat trauma cases.
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VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
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FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
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Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
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region: Carribean -> Haiti, Carribean
(show/hide changes)Wed Jan 13 10:14:51 +0000 2010 by LTel:notes: FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. -> VOLUNTEERING:
Direct Relief relies upon the talents and contributions of volunteers to assist with a full range of activities, including clerical and administrative support, program research, editorial tasks, public outreach, warehouse inventorying, and event hospitality. We are near capacity with volunteer requests, but we continually accept inquiries. Direct Relief’s volunteer opportunities only exist at our warehouse and office in Santa Barbara, California. Our organization does not participate in sending volunteers overseas or to relief areas.
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FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
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Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
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notes: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
---------------------------------
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. -> FROM THE WEBSITE:
Direct Relief International Responding to 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings. Early reports indicate significant property damage and deep concern about large numbers of injured persons.
Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers of medical material aid were scheduled to arrive today in Port-au-Prince today as part of Direct Relief’s ongoing humanitarian and emergency-preparedness work in the country.
The 40-foot and 20-foot containers, containing over $420,000 of essential medicines, supplies, and nutritionals, were destined for St. Damien Children’s Hospital. The hospital is one of three local facilities in Haiti with which Direct Relief has partnered in its Emergency Pre-Positioning Program. The program stages essential medical materials on site with key partners for immediate use in emergency situations such as this one.
The organization announced it will commit up to $1 million in aid for the response and is coordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations.
Direct Relief’s partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital. St. Damien and Partners in Health are particularly active in emergency response and last year received pre-positioned materials in anticipation of hurricane season. The pre-positioned materials become available for general use by the facilities November 30, the end of hurricane season.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has provided more than $60 million in medical material aid to Haiti.
Direct Relief's partners in-country provide medical care for thousands of vulnerable Haitians. Partners in Health began in 1985 as a small community clinic; today that clinic has grown to a 104-bed, full-service hospital and eight other clinic sites across Haiti's Central Plateau. Food for the Poor, a Catholic relief agency founded in 1982, offers assistance to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visitation Hospital serves between 80 and 90 patients a day at its facility outside Port-au-Prince, which houses a lab and pharmacy, seven exam rooms, two medical/dental procedure rooms, and a food bank.
As partners' needs become clear, additional emergency aid consignments will be dispatched.
--------------------------------------
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - BLOG
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
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Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
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Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170 -> Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Direct Relief International (here in Santa Barbara)
is responding to the tragic earthquake in Haiti....
Direct Relief International is responding to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks that struck Haiti today. The earthquake, centered off Port-au-Prince, destroyed a hospital in Petionville and damaged other buildings; the number of injured is expected to be high. Emergency aid is being offered to all our partners in Haiti to support their response to the quake. Two shipping containers, a 40-foot and a 20-foot container of ongoing medical material aid, arrived in Port-au-Prince today destined for St. Damien Children's Hospital; it includes emergency aid as well.
....Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is a Santa Barbara, California-based nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. Direct Relief has provided more than $1 billion in privately funded humanitarian aid since 2000, including more than $150 million in assistance in the United States. It is one of two charities ranked by Forbes that received a perfect fundraising efficiency score for seven consecutive years and is ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as California's largest international nonprofit organization based on private support. - Reuters
"Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS...," wrote Dr. Louise Ivers from Port-au-Prince, in an e-mail to the group's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The clinical director of Partners In Health, which operates nine hospitals and health centers for poor people in Haiti, added: "Temporary field hospital ... needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us." - CNN
Please help out, especially any Californians....as we know the devastation, hardships and heartbreaks that earthquakes can cause. Donate some moolah...here:
https://secure2.convio.net/dri/site/Donation2?idb=1593451692&1170.donation=form1&df_id=1170
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Direct Relief International provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world. We work to strengthen the in-country health efforts of our partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment.
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