Team of doctors and nurses to bring medical care to Haiti

FIVE medical personnel attached to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick, will be part of an Irish team of doctors and nurses who will travel to Haiti to help people injured in the January 12 earthquake which devastated the country.

The group will leave on April 10.

Team leader Finbarr Condon, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, said: “In the aftermath of the earthquake, the Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeons have been involved in bringing medical teams, as volunteers, on a relay basis to Haiti.