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Haiti Disaster Response Team Report 2,801 Patients Impacted. 13 Communities Visited. 45 Days of Relief Work. From August 19 to October 2, International Medical Relief was on the ground in Les Cayes, Haiti serving several communities who were impacted by the earthquake. With the help of 71 volunteers and staff, and $36,000 of donated medical supplies, our teams were able to aid nearly 3,000 people through medical care, health education, and rice and bean giveaways. The Unforgettable Haitian People of 2021 I recently went to Haiti on a disaster relief medical mission as a nurse practitioner with International Medical Relief. Haiti’s […]

Thanks to Amity, RN, one of our fabulous Zambia team members for sharing her photos and reflections on her experiences. Here I am teaching hypertension prevention to these beautiful women and explaining stroke symptoms. I have seen well over 300 patients this week and the most prevalent ailment I’ve come across is hypertension. And really, only in a limited amount. The people we visited today had very few and minor complaints, mostly arthritic pain and the need for reading glasses. Visiting the local village of Mukuni. We were blessed to be able to visit the palace. Before you enter, you

On August 24, 2019, the Bahamas was hit with an extremely powerful and devastating category 5 hurricane named Dorian. Dorian continued to intensify over the following days and reached its peak with one-minute sustained winds of 185 mph (295 km/h) by September 1, 2019. It made landfall in the Bahamas in Elbow Cay and again on Grand Bahama several hours later. Dorian spent 36 hours over the Bahamas with high winds and torrential rains, swamping neighborhoods in muddy brown floodwaters and destroying or severely damaging thousands of homes and causing widespread power outages. Damage in the Bahamas was catastrophic due