city:peoria

Should OSF-Saint Francis Medical Center be Sued by Haitian Survivors ? – Dispatches from Haiti – Journal Star – Peoria, IL
▻http://blogs.pjstar.com/haiti/2016/03/27/should-osf-saint-francis-medical-center-be-sued-by-haitian-survivors

If I could “design” the lawsuit it would be similar to IJDH. I believe the #cholera victims are asking 50,000 dollars per victim. Haitian Hearts would do the same even though we know that no amount of monetary recompense would ever replace Jackson. We would ask for an apology from OSF to Jackson’s family. (Nadia and Rosette are fully aware of what happened to Jackson.) And OSF, like the United Nations, would need to make things better in Haiti. Any previous Haitian Hearts patient operated at OSF would need to be accepted back by OSF if they needed repeat surgery.

#Haïti #médecine #inégalités
sur un sujet un peu différent de l’affaire des #nations_unies, un cas très concret de déni de soins sur un patient

There have been 1,001 mass shootings in America since 2013 - The Washington Post

▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/biz/there-have-been-1001-mass-shootings-in-america-since-2013/2015/10/12/cfcac4cc9be466e3eb26a0c083154166_story.html?wpisrc=nl_draw2

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It’s difficult to tell, exactly, which gunman pushed America past a milestone of violence in the early hours of Saturday morning this past weekend. Was it the unknown man who opened fire at a house party in Charlotte, injuring four? Or the home invader in Peoria, Ill., who shot a 14-year-old student athlete dead and wounded three other teens? Or the gang members who shot and injured five people at a shopping plaza Memphis?

Regardless, some time between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday, somebody pulled the trigger on what would be America’s 1,000th mass shooting incident since January 2013. This figure comes from the crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker, maintained by a community of redditors with an aim toward drawing attention toward gun violence. The tracker defines a mass shooting as any single incident in which four or more people are injured by gunfire.

#états-unis #meurtres #police #massacre #armes #armement

Clean Water and Common Sense – Dr John Caroll, Dispatches from #Haiti – Journal Star – Peoria, IL
▻http://blogs.pjstar.com/haiti/2014/06/01/clean-water-common-sense

I would ask how $2.2 billion dollars is “prohibitive” if it means improved water and sanitation for 10 million people? Cleaning up the water could prevent many of the deadly water born diseases including #cholera.

The #UN occupation of Haiti since 2004 costs 2 million dollars per day. If we did the math and looked at the morbidity and mortality caused from dirty water and poor sanitation, would we not have saved many more Haitian lives during the last 10 years if we would have invested in Haiti’s infrastructure and improved the water and sanitation?

#santé

Manger de la boue - A State of Denial - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
►http://www.pjstar.com/haiti_ugc_blog/x1708948256/A-State-of-Denial

In 2007 I posted that people in Soleil were so hungry they were eating mud. 
 
As people found out about this atrocity I think they were in disbelief. One commenter wrote that maybe the lady who makes the mudpies in Soleil should “turn into a Mrs. Fields and export her mudpies to the States”. 
 
In 2012 people in Soleil are still eating mudpies. 

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Denial is good for us when it comes to thinking about this. It could not be happening we tell ourselves. This can’t be happening 90 minutes from Miami.

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#haiti #misère