VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 65 shelters and 8  shelters for people with special needs. Over 4,000 people in shelters now and thousands more expected from nursing homes.   Shelters require 2 health care professionals per shelter. Shelters for people with special needs require 10 health care professionals per shelter. 12 hour [...]

As the next OnCall team prepares to leave for Port-Au-Prince on December 3rd, there are a few items that are needed on the ground but hard to find in Haiti! We are looking for the following: Antipyretics (medicine for fever and cold) for infants and children Vitamins for infants and children Skin creams, antifungal and [...]

With crying and much encouragement, our team began our morning praying for 2 young workers of the home. We then visited our 2nd tent city which has about 500 people. Despite the small size of the camp, we were faced with challenges as we faced the poorest and a more energetic community. The team served [...]

DAY 3 We went back to the same site for the second day as the need is immense. The medical highlight of the day was that we had a baby boy who had a fever and was breathing very fast, we thought he had clinical pneumonia; again, we had to be innovative with what we [...]

There is a team leaving for Central Asia at the end of this month and I have been notified that there is a need for anti-fungal and/or triple antibiotic creams. If you are a medical professional and have access to donate either of these items, or are a non-medical professional who can purchase them over [...]