Haiti
"The People of Haiti were Amazing"
Kim Gagnon, left, with young patients from Haiti and Kurt Rhynhart, MD, Critical Care Attending and General Surgeon.
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- One year later: An update and a more recent video on Dartmouth's involvement. (1:56)
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere. On January 16, the first of six medical response teams from Dartmouth-Hitchcock flew in to provide desperately needed medical assistance and supplies. Dartmouth's Haiti response is an ongoing collaboration involving Dartmouth College, D-H, and Dartmouth Medical School—who collectively to date have sent 39 D-H health professionals—including 19 nurses—over 40 tons of medical supplies, and $1.5 million to the relief effort. Kim Gagnon, BSN, RN, of the Intensive Care Unit, traveled to Haiti twice with the response teams.
