FTC MEDICAL TEAM DEPLOYS INTO PORT-AU-PRINCE

Updated Jan 21, 2010
The FTC Canada team of doctors and paramedics have been deployed into the city of Port-au-Prince. They have traveled as a team to a hospital in the heart of the quake ravaged city. Grant Rumford reported to CTV that they would be most likely be "embedded" in Carrefour, the epicentre of the 7.0 earthquake.

Remarkably, survivors are still being pulled alive from the rubble. Victims of the quake are reportedly desperate for medical care which can not come soon enough.

We are hopeful that our team will bring a sense of hope and relief to emergency personal already weary from endless days of working with survivors.

We expect more news to come from Medical Team Advisor, Dr. Anthony Brown later today or this evening.

CTV's Canada AM continues to check in with paramedic Grant Rumford from his location near Port-au-Prince. The Mission of Hope site is FTC Canada's base camp while in Haiti.

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Durham region reports on help to Haiti including work of FTC Medical Advisor, Dr. Brown

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CTV reports on the teams arrival in Haiti and interview paramedic Grant Rumford

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