KIRKSVILLE, MO -- Nine students from Kirksville’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCOM) recently returned from their spring break in Haiti. The group was able to aid victims from the earthquake that happened on January 12.
The medical students put their knowledge and experience to the test, helping Nehemiah Vision Ministries with their clinic near Port-au-Prince from March 13 through March 20.
"We would set up a mobile clinic with medications and we would treat as many people as we could in a day” KCOM student Elizabeth Loconto said. Phil Wanzek said that he did some procedures on a boy who cut his finger with a razor blade and also got to do an ultrasound for the first time.
Aside from their work, the medical students said they learned a lot medically, spiritually, and professionally.
Stay tuned to our website as KTVO will be posting video of their experience in the near future.
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