Health in Haiti

Wed, 27 May 2009 05:00:00

Health in Haiti

David Walmer

Cervical cancer is a major killer of women in Haiti. The country has no radiation therapy, and so prevention is critical. All of this came to the attention of American doctor David Walmer on a mission trip. Although he found the health and economic situation nearly hopeless, he committed himself to helping.

David is now working with Haitian doctor Delson Merisier. Delson is rare in his country, a doctor who decided to stay in his community and practice medicine in a very challenging environment.

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Together, they are convincing thousands of women to get screened for cervical cancer, and they're testing out a new inexpensive diagnostic tool. The two doctors are hoping the good they do in Haiti can spread to the rest of the developing world.

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Running Two Businesses

Dennis Carmichael wrote in to tell us his story. Dennis is an engineer in Michigan who finds himself in the odd position of running two small businesses, one failing and the other thriving. Dennis’ first business is in manufacturing technology. Last year, all of his major business contracts canceled their orders in a span of two months. Dennis tried to avoid layoffs, but eventually had to lay off 8 of his 10 employees. Dennis’ new business supplying radio frequency identification devices to firefighters is taking off, but Dennis finds it hard to be as excited about it as he’d like. He runs both businesses out of the same open work space, which creates some awkward dynamics between the old and new employees.
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Health in Haiti

Health in Haiti

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Running Two Businesses