MILWAUKEE — A retired Wisconsin nurse practitioner helps to make a distinction in Haiti.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the nation on Saturday, killing greater than 1,400 individuals and leaving at the least 6,000 injured. Gigi Pomerantz began Youthaiti in 2008, a nonprofit which helps rural elements of the nation with sanitation and hygiene schooling.
Courtesy of Youthaiti
“Youthaiti workers are all properly, though some have misplaced relations within the quake,” the group’s web site reads. “They’re making assessments of the injury and the continued wants within the 18 communities we serve.”
The nonprofit additionally at all times responds to emergency conditions and is at present doing what it will possibly to assist out the individuals of Haiti.
These with Youthaiti have arrange a makeshift clinic to assist help individuals. They’re working with three physicians and 4 nurses. Proper now the largest concern is getting provides there.
“Lots of the roads had been destroyed by landslides,” Pomerantz stated. “Think about transporting an injured particular person on the again of a motorbike as a result of that’s the solely approach to get via.”
There’s loads of getting ready and planning that goes into it.
“We’re on the lookout for funds in order that we will buy the provides which might be wanted and making an attempt to coordinate easy methods to get them these provides. Do we have to get a helicopter, to airdrop the provides? These are all issues we’re taking a look at,” defined Pomerantz.
Previous to retiring, Pomerantz labored as a nurse practitioner at Aurora Sinai Medical Heart in Milwaukee.
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