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MedWish International still is collecting medical supplies for victims of the Haitian earthquake while Ohio doctors, nurses and other medical professionals volunteer to help.
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On Thursday, MedWish International will send a fifty-three foot trailer full of 26 pallets of medical supplies to help in initial recovery efforts from the earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
In 1993, between college and medical school at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Lee Ponsky set up a nonprofit organization, now known as medWish International, to collect those supplies and get them to developing countries or countries hit by natural disasters. It has grown to the point that this year it could collect 400 tons of medical supplies for clinics across the globe.