{"id":263,"date":"2010-08-04T19:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2010\/08\/04\/did-jehovahs-witnesses-help-people-in-haiti-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T21:32:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:32:07","slug":"did-jehovahs-witnesses-help-people-in-haiti-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/did-jehovahs-witnesses-help-people-in-haiti-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses help people in Haiti?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>RELIEF CENTERS\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">**One Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses assembly hall and 3 smaller kingdom were used as temporary clinic and medical centers. NOTE:\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8212; According to JW Media &#8220;the Witnesses [assisted ] in caring for the medical needs of their fellow worshippers and others&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8212; they &#8220;cared for hundreds of patients, witness and non-witness alike. No one was turned away.&#8221; &#8212; Journalists Donald Elwell &#038; Byron Smith, &#8220;Dominican Today&#8221; (online)<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>RELIEF SUPPLIES\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">**70 tons of food and equipment (including tents &#038; clothing)\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">** 5,000 pounds of medicine and medical equipment\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">**70,076 daily food rations were supplied\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>MEDICAL TEAMS\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">** 24 French speaking doctors and nurses from Guadeloupe\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">**Two teams of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses medical professionals from France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States &#8211; including four general practitioners, two surgeons, four nurses, and a midwife\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">**55 emergency surgeries\u00a0<\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/Did_Jehovah's_Witnesses_help_people_in_Haiti\">http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/Did_Jehovah&#8217;s_Witnesses_help_people_in_Haiti<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RELIEF CENTERS\u00a0 **One Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses assembly hall and 3 smaller kingdom were used as temporary clinic and medical centers. NOTE:\u00a0 &#8212; According to JW Media &#8220;the Witnesses [assisted ] in caring for the medical needs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6577,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}