In past relief efforts, the global institute has sent doctors to places such as Ukraine and the Bahamas to aid in relief efforts. Elizabeth Greig, an assistant professor of medicine at the Miller School who serves as co-director of education and research programs at the institute, are engaged.
Barth Green, a world-famous neurosurgeon who is executive dean for global health and community service and leads the Global Institute for Community Health and Development, along with Dr. UHealth and Miller School leaders are waiting for state officials to conduct their assessments and then share the best way the University can offer support as part of a concerted effort to provide relief to the impacted region. Plans are also being made to send Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s Vision Van to Florida’s West Coast to operate from the parking lot of its Naples facility and provide further care, as needed. The facility, he said, will be ready to reopen on Monday. Torres, emergency management director for UHealth and the Miller School of Medicine, drove to the region early Thursday to assess any potential damage to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Naples, which is in Collier County.
“In the immediate aftermath, it is difficult to know how many have been affected and to what degree, but as ’Canes fueled by a mission of service, we are determined to provide hope and take action during this critical time,” President Julio Frenk said in a message to the University community. The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Division of Emergency Management was among those contacted by West Coast medical facilities on the same day of the storm’s landfall. Florida’s Lee County municipalities are the hardest hit, but all along the southwestern coast, cities and towns of every size are now reeling from the brunt of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in the region on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 storm, knocking out power to millions of people, tearing houses off foundations, destroying critical bridges, and turning streets into rivers.įrom health care and housing to food and clothing, relief efforts will be immense, with calls for aid being initiated even before Ian even slammed into the coast, emergency managers are reporting.
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