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Haiti’s northern region lacked facilities that
make artificial limbs, so Lovejoy created a
prosthetic workshop with Mike Richard,
a certified prostheticist. “Thanks to the
generosity of the people of Jacksonville,FL
and the Order of Malta, we were able to
design and build a large insulated shipping
container for a state-of-the-art workshop
and ship it to the hospital,” reports
Lovejoy. The workshop opened on campus
on May 11 and by the end of the year had
produced nearly 50 prostheses. Lovejoy’s
daughter, Ellen, produced a documentary
that chronicled the hospital’s earthquake
response and in particular the work of the
orthopedic team. “Angels of Milot” was
shown on several PBS stations at the first
anniversary of the earthquake.
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