Florida Senate - 2011                            (NP)    SR 2200
       
       
       
       By Senator Braynon
       
       
       
       
       33-03957-11                                           20112200__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing the selfless humanitarian
    3         efforts of Barth A. Green, M.D., the University of
    4         Miami’s Global Institute for Community Health and
    5         Development, and Project Medishare in providing
    6         medical care to the people of Haiti.
    7  
    8         WHEREAS, in 1994, Barth A. Green, M.D., cofounded Project
    9  Medishare for Haiti in order to help improve the health status
   10  of Haitians through an integrated, community approach to
   11  development, serving more than 85,000 Haitians before the
   12  disastrous 2010 earthquake, and
   13         WHEREAS, Barth A. Green, M.D., is also a cofounder of the
   14  University of Miami’s Global Institute for Community Health and
   15  Development, a program focused on improving health care and
   16  advancing community development in the Western Hemisphere, and
   17         WHEREAS, in response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Barth
   18  A. Green, M.D., and his colleagues at the University of Miami’s
   19  Global Institute for Community Health and Development and
   20  Project Medishare established a massive relief effort, and
   21         WHEREAS, as part of that initiative, the University of
   22  Miami’s Global Institute/Project Medishare field hospital opened
   23  in Haiti, treating more than 30,000 patients and performing more
   24  than 1,500 emergency surgeries, and
   25         WHEREAS, more than 5,000 rotating medical volunteers from
   26  around the world served at the field hospital, which was the
   27  only referral center for severe critical care and trauma cases
   28  in Haiti, and
   29         WHEREAS, 45,000 more patients have been treated since the
   30  field hospital relocated to community Hospital Bernard Mevs in
   31  downtown Port-au-Prince and began collaborating with the
   32  Haitian-run facility, and
   33         WHEREAS, Barth A. Green, M.D., and his colleagues at the
   34  University of Miami’s Global Institute for Community Health and
   35  Development and Project Medishare have been instrumental in
   36  increasing access to health care internationally, NOW,
   37  THEREFORE,
   38  
   39  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   40  
   41         That the members of the Senate recognize the selfless
   42  humanitarian efforts of Barth A. Green, M.D., and his colleagues
   43  at the University of Miami’s Global Institute for Community
   44  Health and Development and Project Medishare in providing
   45  medical care to the people of Haiti both before and after the
   46  disastrous 2010 earthquake.
   47         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution, with
   48  the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Barth A. Green,
   49  M.D., as a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida
   50  Senate.