Jacobs joins the Batey Relief Alliance and Red Cross to provide assistance. Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs (D-Flatbush) has joined with the Batey Relief Alliance and the American Red Cross to assist victims of the recent devastating floods and landslides that have caused more than 2000 deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. ?I am deeply saddened …
More than 3,000 people have been killed ? 1,500 more still missing from a week-long floods and landslides that devastated Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Hundreds of unidentified corpses are being buried on a tiny island surrounded by crocodiles, others in shallow mass graves 3 to 4-feet deep. …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Days of heavy rain have caused hundreds of deaths and destroyed homes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. At least 280 people have been killed, many of them swept away when rain-swollen rivers burst their banks, authorities in the neighboring Caribbean countries said on Tuesday. Other reports on the devastation …
BRA is looking for licensed volunteer health care professionals from the United States and Canada to work in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. If you are an internist, gynecologist, nurse, public health expert, optometrist, opthalmologist or a pediatrician, or medical administrator, you may apply by contacting Ulrick Gaillard at bra@bkreative.net or (917) 627-5026. The duration …
Preocupa Sida afecte 5% población bateyes La directora de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID), Elena Brineman, mostró anoche su preocupación por los resultados arrojados en la Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud (ENDESA 2002) en relación con la prevalencia de 5% de infección de SIDA entre los habitantes de los …
