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HISG Operations in Pakistan

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David Bopp
33 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 45 Views
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago, updated 1 week, 5 days ago
Quick Update on the Situation: 20,000,000 people impacted, up to 25% of the country under water, destruction/elimination of primary local food supplies (with no change

Medical Work in Pakistan - Before the Flooding

Matt Wallace
68 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 16 Views
Posted 1 month ago
HISG's website recently highlighted efforts in Pakistan, before the latest flooding. Recent HISG web article on Pakistan work If your organization or group would like to share an update that you think the Starfish Community might be interested in, share it. In this case, it might be good to ...

Disasters in Brazil

Tom Jennings
8 Posts
0 Votes 3 Replies 75 Views
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago, updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Friends, I received two emails from Margaretha Adiwardana ( meiske@terra.com.br ), our IDR partner in Brazil (please see excerpts below). Any help and support that anyone can provided will be much appreciated: We are really overloaded now with things to do, it is like two disasters at the same ...

Starfish Expo - North Africa Breakout Session

Travis Anderson
16 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 233 Views
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Norm Brinkley - Session Leader Subject Matter Experts on North African Region Yazi Karen Boyle Norm Brinkley Issues - Water Dams that were created long ago are causing problems with the natural flow of water. Less than 7% of the people in Niger drink clean water and less than 5% have electricity ...

Where are functional clinics and hospitals in Port au Prince?

Paul Penley
2 Posts
0 Votes 6 Replies 201 Views
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago, updated 6 months, 3 weeks ago
To maximize the 30,000 pounds of medical supplies that Americares will be moving into PAP by Saturday, we are looking for intel on: 1) Ground transportation/security at airport for moving relief supplies 2) Streets or areas to avoid that are impassable by truck 3) Where are functional clinics ...

Haiti: Operational Biosurveillance Priorities For Potentially Disruptive Infectious Disease Events

James Wilson, MD
3 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 114 Views
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago, updated 7 months, 3 weeks ago
This link details our biosurveillance operations posture http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/biosurveillance/2010/01/haiti-operational-biosurveillance-priorities-for-potentially-disruptive-infectious-disease-events.html James M. Wilson V, MD

Connections to Ophthalmic Equipment??

Mark Sprenger
34 Posts
1 Vote 2 Replies 110 Views
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 7 months, 3 weeks ago
HISG just received this request below. Anyone know about any sources that can assist these folks? It seems that most exciting opportunity for us right now is to open a private, for-profit eye clinic here in __. Along with seeing patients, we hope to sell eye-care related surgical supplies and ...

Burkina Faso - looking for partners

Karmen
2 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 244 Views
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Planning a trip to Burkina Faso in March 2010 and looking for local NGOs and/or partners. We want to find a potential people's group and/or village to work with to do community development work. I would like to learn more about some of the under resourced people ...

Hospital Development Projects in Yemen

Dae-Young Lee
1 Post
1 Vote 0 Replies 116 Views
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Surgical / Medical / Emergency Room / Nursing

Let's Save One..

Angel Alert Network
10 Posts
2 Votes 2 Replies 83 Views
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago, updated 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Would you or your organization be interested in partnering in the "Let's Save One" campaign? Here's a little background information: When the question "What is the yardstick for success in Darfur?" was put to HISG's Country Director for Sudan, he thought about all the people living in ...