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SC Hospital Assoc. sending supplies to Haiti

By Stewart Moore - bio | email

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - People in the Midlands are sending more help to Haiti. The South Carolina Hospital Association has joined in the operation.

"We've got 1,000 pounds of much needed medical supplies donated by the SC Hospital Association to help the Haiti Children Project," said Wade McWyn with the SCHA. "Got a plane that's taxing in right now and three of us are going to be able to fly over to Haiti."

It's not the usual order of business for the SC Hospital Association, but hearing the reports of the amount of injured in Haiti, the group couldn't stand idle while people needed help.

"Get to Jeremy, Haiti where a lot of injured refugees have been sent to. This stuff will be in operating rooms and medical clinics tonight," said McWyn. "Everything you need for surgery, severe wound care, antibiotics, lydicom, sutures, casting material that Moore Orthopedics donated, bandages, gloves, surgical gowns, everything it takes to run a hospital."

Though you may not have extra medical equipment to send, there is still something you can do to help get the supplies to Haiti.

"The planes are donated, pilots have donated their time, fuel for these trips is expensive," said McWyn. "We have another trip leaving Thursday and Saturday. So we've got a lot of supplies we need to get over there."

The plane set to lift off on Thursday is already packed, and a warehouse full of supplies will be loaded onto another plane Saturday morning.

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