As one Erlanger hospital team returns from a medical mission trip in Haiti, a second team gets ready to start working there.
A group of three doctors and three nurses left Wednesday morning from TAC Air at Lovell Field. Dr. Phillip Smith, who is with University Surgical Associates and a member of the team, said the group tentatively plans to stay seven days.
Cyrus Huffman, chief medical officer for Erlanger Health System, said the first team, dubbed “America One,” worked at St. Damian Hospital in Haiti. The second team, he said, “is more of a pediatric group to meet the requests of the (hospital’s) leadership.”
The first team of two doctors and a nurse that left Jan. 18 was expected to return late Wednesday night, according to Vanessa Young, wife of Dr. Chris Young, one of the doctors on the team.
Also on the first team were Dr. Chris Moore and Erlanger nurse Jennifer Ohle.