News snippets

Did you know that a hospital in Haiti, St. Nicholas Hospital, is over-run with cholera patients? They are setting up triage areas outside using wooden benches. While there are aid organizations assisting with this crisis, the hospital is over-flowing, literally, and hoping that the cholera outbreak will reach its final wave soon. Mostly children and the elderly are stricken, and many are severely dehydrated because of this problem. You can read more about it here: CNN News.

In other news, scientists are attempting to solve the prematurity puzzle. What other conditions besides the associated symptoms of prematurity, are these infants susceptible to? Conditions like cerebral palsy or autism. This is a question that many parents of premature infants are asking. There is still room for a lot of research in this area. Hopefully some answers will help in the understanding of what we can do to prevent some of these conditions that affect the child for life.

These little bits of news get me thinking that sometimes we just get wrapped around what is happening in our own little world. Are we oblivious to what ever else is going on around us in the world? So many people are suffering. What can we do to help? If not elsewhere in the world, what can we do to help the neighbors in our own community, in our own family? It is time to reach out and use our skills and talents to help others.