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• Rescued from a plane on fire in Goma

  

  On April 15, a passenger jet attempting to take off crashed into a crowded marketplace in Goma, DRC, killing dozens. Mapenzi, who had recently lost…
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• HPIC has now provided $400 million in donated medicine to the developing world

  MONTREAL (Oct. 11, 2012) – Today Health Partners International of Canada joined with local donor pharmaceutical companies and other partners at IMS Brogan to celebrate…
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• Training caregivers to save more mothers and babies in Zimbabwe

  

  Forty healthcare workers have fanned out across Zimbabwe equipped with best practices in the provision of emergency obstetrical care. “Moved by the dire statistics on…
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• Taking the pain away

  

  On May 14 2011, Dr. Hank Scholtens left for his second medical mission to Peru. For two weeks, the family physician from Ontario helped to…
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• Montreal’s Pharmascience Inc. donates vitally needed treatments to fight cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone

  MONTREAL, Quebec – September 25, 2012 – A large donation of a vitally needed treatment for cholera is on its way from the Montreal pharmaceutical…
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• Calgary Herald feature: City doctor departs on mission to impoverished villages of Ecuador

  

  While most people are packing their suitcases for summer holidays, hoping they won’t be dinged by airline luggage restrictions, Calgary doctor Manuel Mah is stuffing…
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• Surgical nurse now able to support his family

  

  Sixty-year old Hassibulah had been working as a surgical nurse in Kabul, Afghanistan to support his family of nine children when he began feeling ill…
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• Senegalese street kid’s leg is saved

  

  Twelve years old and living on the street in one of the poorest countries of the world, Djibe already had a pretty hard life. When…
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• Honduras Emergency Medical Brigade

  

  HPIC received a great report from Healthy Horizons for Children and Families about their mission to Honduras and the impact of the Physician Travel Pack…
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• Mother and children focus of Honduran shipment

  

  Women and children seen at 49 clinics in rural Honduras “greatly benefitted” from a shipment of medicines Health Partners International of Canada provided to HOPE…
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