McMaster medical students to assist in Haiti earthquake relief

Three medical students from the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine will travel to Haiti this week to deliver supplies and learn from a medical team working out of a makeshift clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

The students - May Sanaee and Regine Krechowicz of the Niagara Regional Campus and Layli Sanaee of the main Hamilton campus - will be based at the Anis Zunuzi Baha'i School as part of a training opportunity that will allow them to experience disaster medicine first hand.

"All three of us have always known that global health is going to be a part of our professions," said May Sanaee, a second-year student and lead organizer. "We know this experience will be as tough as it will get and as extreme as it will be. But this is what we expect to do for the rest of our lives, so we want to start learning now."