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>3030 Edition

>March 22~28, 2010

Taiwanese medical team report on rescue work in Haiti

>Reported by Chen Wei-chien

>Written by Lydia Ma

As soon as countries all over the world heard about Haiti’s  7.0-magnitude 
earthquake, many

formed rescue and relief teams and sent them to Haiti. Taiwan also  sent its 
own team of

rescue workers via Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corp.

Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corp, a private, non-sectarian,  non-profit 
organization dedicated

to improving quality of life through provision of medical services  and health 
education, sent a

team of 65 medical professionals to Haiti. The group included  Changhua 
Christian Hospital

>anesthesiologist Dr. Yeh Liang-tsai.

Team members included 14 people fluent in Haiti’s official  language, 3 
Haitians medical

students currently studying in Taiwan, and 23 professionals from  Miami. They 
brought

approximately 2,000 kg of medical supplies to assist the wounded  in Haiti and 
provided

medical services to more than 5,000 people during their brief stay  in 
Port-au-Prince.

According to Yeh, he went to Haiti because he felt compelled to do  his part in 
helping the

people of Haiti. But he later confessed that though he had  witnessed countless 
deceased and

wounded patients inside the operating room over the years as a  physician, he 
was still

shocked by the number of wounded and dead people he saw when he  first arrived 
to Haiti.

Yeh also reported that his team arrived 10 days after the  earthquake and 
worked in a

makeshift hospital with an open-air operating room where they  conducted 17 
major surgeries.

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