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Press Release Sept 11, 2007/NewsTimesLive.com
Ridgefield pair open clinic in Ecuador
By Susan Tuz
RIDGEFIELD -- Vicente Suntaxi came to Ridgefield last week
bringing clothing and crafts from artisans in Ecuador. He will
return to Ecuador Sept. 23 with medicine.
Suntaxi is an Ecuadorean businessman who put up money and used
his influence to help two Ridgefield medical professionals --
Dr. Patricia Jorquera and physician's assistant Jens Haerter --
open a clinic in his country.
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Press Release Nov 12, 2006/The Ridgefield
Press
HELPING OTHERS: Ridgefield
couple brings health aid to Ecuador
By
Chipp Reid
It’s the age-old joke – people get sick and go
to the doctor. The physician hands out a couple of pills and says,
“Call me in the morning.” An old joke, but one that
also seemingly sums up how Americans view health care. It’s
always there, always available and arguably, the best in the world.
For people in the developing world, however, health care is no
joke. It’s also either unavailable or unaffordable.
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press release here.
Press Release Nov 30, 2006/ The Darien Times
Healthier third world: How they
can do it themselves
By Chipp Reida
It’s the age-old joke – people get sick and go
to the doctor. The physician hands out a couple of pills and says,
“Call me in the morning.” An old joke, but one that
also seemingly sums up how Americans view health care. It’s
always there, always available and arguably, the best in the world.
For people in the developing world, however, health care is no
joke. It’s also either unavailable or unaffordable.
Read the full
press release here.
 Press
Release November 2006
HealtheClinic Returns to Latin America
Ridgefield-based non profit HealtheClinic
returns to Ecuador this November to continue the project of enabling
local people to provide their own community-based healthcare.
Read the full press release
here.
Read this press release published in Spanish in
the "El Canillita Periodico de los Latinos en Conneticut"
here.
Article just posted. January 25,
2006
Eyes Wide Open - A Letter from Guatemala.
 By
Monique Tello - Health eClinic Special Advisor
Published in "Yale Medicine"
the Alumni Journal of the Yale University School of Medicine -
Summer 2002
The suffering of the boy who had fallen into boiling water
was like the misery of the city’s streets: possible for
some to ignore but searing to a medical student working in the
hospital’s burn unit.
Read this inspirational article here.
August, 2005
Reporting from the field
- A Tsunami Story
By Monique Tello - Health eClinic Special Advisor
Read this first hand report here.
May 29, 2005
Reporting from the field
- My Volunteering Experiences
in Quito
By Cliff Gobin
Read this first hand report here.
April 29, 2005
For Immediate Release
Ridgefielders
Reaching Out through the Web
Read this article here.
April 28, 2005
Acorn Press, Ridgefield, Conn. USA
Internet-based
non profit to aid health care abroad
Read this article here.
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