We recently received this email from Jim Toth '90 asking if we here in the Boston area could do a small part in helping the people of Haiti now in their time of great need. As you can see in the following email chain, he is in need of getting a portable x-ray machine from Boston to Miami which will then be taken from Miami to Port-au-Prince. If you are able to help in ANY way or know of something that can be done, please contact the club or Jim directly (
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). Thank you in advance and lets see if we can do some good for the people of Haiti on this President's Day 2010.
The following is the request the club received from Jim Toth:
To all: Recently, a small group from our parish, including myself, travelled to Haiti after the earthquake to help as first responders: vimeo.com/9121347
As you might imagine, Orthopedic injuries were everywhere but radiology facilities were limited and or over-run. A friend in the Boston area, Mike Coughlin, has a portable x-ray machine he’d like to donate to the Haiti relief effort. I sent out a broadcast email, asking if anyone might be able to use this equipment. I got a response from our very own Father Thomas Streit….copied below:
So, Jim, the Chief of Radiology (Dr. Joachim a friend of mine and someone I respect enormously) at the now destroyed University of Haiti Medical School is interested.
How can we help get it down there, if no one else has snatched it up?
Best,
Fr Thomas Streit CSC PhD
Haiti Program | College of Science, Biol Sciences Dept
Eck Inst for Global Hlth
Cntr for Rare & Ngltd Diseases & Helen Kellogg Inst for Intnl Studies
Univ of Notre Dame du Lac
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I’ve arranged for transport from Miami into Port-au-Prince, through a contact I know at Partner’s in Health. But right now, I’m struggling to find a way to move it from Boston to Miami. Do you think Boston’s ND community might have the ability to help? I don’t know what your response to this disaster has been but I’m sure it’s been robust and generous. It’s the Notre Dame way. I’m reaching out, one Golden Domer to another, looking for some help. We need a truck and some guys willing to make a trip to the sunny south carrying some life saving cargo to Miami. Think you might be able to lend a hand?
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