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Article: Project HOPE and Uplift International Send Humanitarian Aid in Support of West Sumatra, Indonesia Earthquake Relief.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 18, 2009
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International health education and humanitarian aid organization Project HOPE and Seattle-based global health and equity organization Uplift International are sending nearly $940,000 in medicines and medical supplies to Indonesia in response to two earthquakes that recently struck the nation's Sumatra Province. Measuring 7.9 and 6.2 in magnitude, the earthquakes resulted in more than 1,000 deaths, 295 missing, over 2,200 injured and left tens of thousands without shelter.
Project HOPE and Uplift International are working with the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) in support of its emergency medical response, which includes mobile medical units and clinics that ...