ORLANDO, FL – Doctors and Health Care professionals from the United States will be donating their time in Grenada this week.  Dr. Beverly Nelson previously invited dedicated physicians and health care professionals with many different disciplines ranging from pediatric orthopedics to cardiology.   The team volunteers will dedicate their time, energy and effort to developing the continued treatment for Grenada’s children that have no health care resources.  Most of the team will arrive on August 29th and will be working at various health locations through September 1st, 2007.

Most of the assembled medical team will donate their time energy and effort to treating children at St. Georges General hospital.

Dr. Nelson, recruited physicians that have experience in Grenada previously.  Several were involved in the CHORES (Children’s Health Organization Relief and Education Services)

Grenadian by birth, raised and educated in Grenada and in the United States, Dr. Nelson began reaching out on behalf of Grenadian children from the moment she returned to practice medicine in her beloved island nation in 1989. "I love medicine and I love my country," says Nelson. "I knew there were complex problems in tertiary care for our children due to lack of specialty services and outdated medical facilities. My decision to return carried with it a responsibility to bring about change.”

Of note, Judy Hammer-Knisely, Speech Pathologist with Wolfson Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, will be visiting with the group. Hammer-Knisely was featured on cable television’s Discovery Health Channel as the therapist shown in the show ‘Born Without a Face’

Dr. Nelson and the visiting physicians are available for interviews.

 

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