Second UNMC team on the ground in Haiti

Members of UNMC’s second volunteer deployment team gather for a photo at Miami International Airport on Thursday before they headed out for Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The team arrived in Haiti on Thursday and relieved the two remaining members of UNMC’s first volunteer deployment team.

UNMC’s second group of volunteers arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday.

The 12-member team — which is composed of eight nurses, two physicians, one pharmacist and one physician assistant — will work for the next seven to 10 days at the University of Miami/MediShare Hospital and other locations in Port-au-Prince.

Sponsor a volunteer The College of Public Health Student Association is sponsoring an “Adopt a Provider” Campaign to support UNMC’s Haitian Relief and Outreach Fund. The association hopes to raise $1,500 for each of the providers who deployed this week. Proceeds will support medical center volunteer efforts and help offset personal costs for the volunteers in Haiti. Contact Michelle Lampman at 559-8406 or Anh Nguyen at 559-3295, for more information

The team was debriefed Thursday at the MediShare hospital by two members of UNMC’s first volunteer team — David Young, M.D., an associate professor of surgery at UNMC, and Nick Hall, a nurse from The Nebraska Medical Center.

Dr. Young and Hall have been in Haiti for about three weeks are set to return to the United States today, which marks the one-month anniversary of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed about 230,000 people and wounded countless others.

The Haitian government has declared today a national day of mourning in recognition of the one-month anniversary.

The new volunteers will continue the work of Dr. Young, Hall and the UNMC volunteers who have helped those wounded by the massive earthquake.