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Project HOPE Dispatches Medical Volunteers for Earthquake Aid Effort on the USNS Mercy; Mission Follows Two-Month Mission in Tsunami Region.

MILLWOOD, Va., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Project HOPE today announced that it is sending 50 volunteers, including physicians and nurses, to Nias, an island off the west coast of Sumatra, to provide medical care to the victims of the most recent earthquake to hit the region. The volunteers will board the USNS Mercy, which is steaming back to the region.

The relief effort, coordinated by Project HOPE, comes on the heels of a recently completed two-month partnership with the U.S. Navy to provide medical assistance to tsunami victims. In that mission, more than 200 Project HOPE volunteers served with Navy personnel and helped provide assistance to more than 20,000 ...

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