A service engineer from medical imaging firm Carestream Health of Rochester, NY, has traveled to Haiti with a portable computed radiography (CR) system to assist in earthquake relief efforts in that country.
Jack Williams arrived in Haiti on January 26 with a Kodak Point-of-Care CR-ITX 560 system, a mobile radiography unit that's wireless and battery-powered. Carestream deployed a similar system after the earthquake in May 2008 in Chengdu, China.
Carestream shipped the system to Haiti via an air freighter deployed from Homestead Air Force Base in Miami. The unit has been set up and is now running at a temporary hospital established under tents at the airport. Twenty injured people have been seen, with many more expected as the injured are making their way to the hospital.
Carestream deployed the system through a partnership with AutoGov, Project Medishare, and the University of Miami. The company is also sending medical x-ray film, chemistry, and cassettes to a hospital in Port-au-Prince, Centre Hospitalier du Sacre-Coeur/CDTI, which is almost out of film, according to the company.
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