{"id":48921,"date":"2010-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/01\/26\/unmc-seeks-to-raise-100000-for-haiti-outreach-fund-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T00:22:12","slug":"unmc-seeks-to-raise-100000-for-haiti-outreach-fund-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/01\/26\/unmc-seeks-to-raise-100000-for-haiti-outreach-fund-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC seeks to raise $100,000 for Haiti outreach fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Nebraska Medical Center has set a goal to raise $100,000 for the UNMC Haitian Relief and Outreach Fund through the University of Nebraska Foundation.<\/p>\n

The fund — which to this point has raised about $10,000 — supports relief missions such as the one undertaken by 13 medical center volunteers who arrived in Haiti last weekend.<\/div>\n
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UNMC and its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, hope to send multiple groups of volunteers to assist in Haiti, where a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12 left hundreds of thousands of people dead and wounded.<\/div>\n
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"We have many outstanding volunteers who want to go to Haiti to help and are even willing to pay their own way to do so," said Ayman El-Mohandes, M.B.B.Ch., M.D., M.P.H., dean of the College of Public Health and a co-leader of UNMC’s Haitian response activities. "This fund supports their efforts and reduces the personal financial burdens on these amazing people."<\/div>\n
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Presently, there is a major need for more bedside nurses to assist with wound care, said Nick Hall, a nurse at The Nebraska Medical Center, who is in Haiti this week.<\/div>\n
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A second group of people to be deployed to Haiti is being organized this week and will focus on this need for more nurses.<\/div>\n
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There are several ways to donate to the fund, including:<\/div>\n