SCHUMER HELPS DOZENS OF CREOLE-SPEAKING TRAUMA SURGEONS AND DOCTORS FROM CROWN HEIGHTS SECURE TRAVEL TO HAITI - MANY MORE WAITING IN BROOKLYN TO GO AND HELP
January 21, 2010

Schumer Pushed State Department to Allow NYC Based Team to Travel to Haiti to Help - Doctors, Already in Miami, Were Expected to Leave Yesterday

Local Group of Doctors Has Several Dozen Creole-Speaking Doctors from a Variety of Practices Eager to Travel to Haiti but Are in Need of Transportation

Schumer Pledges to Push Feds to Secure Transportation for These Much Needed Doctors and Specialists

Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that more than a dozen Creole-speaking doctors from Crown Heights are waiting to travel to earthquake ravaged Haiti in order to help in the relief effort. Since the earthquake, the doctors have been eager to travel to Haiti to help but were initially blocked by the State Department from travelling because of the growing log-jam of aid and flights in the country. About a dozen doctors who traveled to Miami had been trying to secure authorization to travel to the country, but were initially blocked from travelling. Schumer pressed the State Department to grant these doctors priority access because they speak Creole and specialize in trauma. Creole is a language spoken in Haiti by about eight million people, which is nearly the entire population. Schumer today said there are several dozen additional Creole-speaking doctors in a variety of fields eager to travel to the region but who have yet to secure transportation. Schumer called on the State Department to work with the group of doctors in Crown Heights to help them secure transportation.
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