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PERTH AMBOY -- A 15-member medical team from the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center, a non-profit community health center in Perth Amboy, will go to Haiti within the next week to help with disaster relief efforts, Dr. Alan Goldsmith, president and founder of the center said today.

Goldsmith, who is also a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations, is helping coordinate all medical missions going through the consulate.

At a press conference in Perth Amboy this morning, Goldsmith was joined by philanthropists, representatives from the United Nations, Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz, and Middlesex County freeholders Ronald Rios, Blanquita Valenti and Mildred Scott.

Goldsmith outlined a number of challenges relief workers are facing in Haiti, including poor coordination, relief goods being left on the airport’s tarmac, looting, and contaminated water.

“This is 10 times worse, if not 100 times worse than Katrina,” he said, referring to the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005.

Jenni Carlock, an executive board member of the JRMC and a registered nurse, will be going to Port-au-Prince to perform triage.

“I’m expecting a lot of chaos,” she said. “My job is to coordinate with doctors to make sure I can bring the most coordinated effort to them as possible.”

The team will also transport medicinal supplies and food.

http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/01/perth_amboy_health_center_send.html

A strong aftershock rocked Haiti on Wednesday morning just as much-needed medical aid was set to reach the earthquake-ravaged nation.

The 6.1-magnitude aftershock was about 6.2 miles deep, with an epicenter about 35 miles (60 kilometers) west-southwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

It rattled people struggling to recover from the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake that walloped the impoverished country January 12, killing at least 72,000 people.

Such a strong tremor can pose significant danger in a nation where damaged buildings are teetering precariously. The aftershock was the strongest to hit Haiti since last week's original quake, the USGS said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/20/haiti.earthquake/index.html?hpt=C1

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