Health care providers with Erlanger ties help in Haiti

Three local medical care professionals who work with Erlanger hospital arrived in Haiti Monday night with the help of Global Outreach International to help with the relief effort after the 7-magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean country on Jan. 12.

The team includes: Jennifer Ohle, surgical nurse and preoperative services director for Erlanger Health System; Dr. Chris Young, an anesthesiologist with Anesthesiology Consultants Exchange; and Chris Moore, developer of the Odyssey Company on Lookout Mountain and is currently assisting Erlanger Health System in developing an Austere Wilderness Medicine Program.

They are currently working out of a hospital in Port-au-Prince near the U.S. Embassy, according to family members, where they are treating patients for femur fractures and amputations

Their plan was to return this weekend, Vanessa Young, Dr. Chris Young's wife, said their departure date depends on the need for their medical assistance.

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