8 I WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 2010 UN to cut off funds if hospitals charge Haitians By Frank Bajak and Paisley Dodds ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients. When the catastrophic earth quake struck Jan. 12, authorities immediately decided to make all medical care free. More than 200 international medical relief groups have sent in teams to help, and millions of dollars of donated medicine has been flown in. U.N. officials told The Associated Press that about a dozen hospitals both public and private have begun charging patients for medicine. The officials said they could not immediately (1) i• (71 at• 7 0 976 Y V A / } r rP D . .; . 40-ft ."' 0 e• V ' , , e , ..' :. - +. V3V -. ,', IF '.'Z' ,P VA: .. # #Vik ..rtik 1 p . ~a .i , e 't-1. Suit Package Includes Jacket Pants or Skirt Free shirt included Crease Resistant Machine Washable Seasonless Wash it. • HE PAPER PLA wand r4eavl Dhow P"Wed bY StateCOMPOL I 1 Take Out Delivery Order visit PSLIC:c•Ne., tOdan to ou , ne.k. • •, ; provide the names of the hospitals but said they were in several parts of the country including Port-au- Prince. "The money is huge," said Christophe Rerat of the Pan American Health Organization. the U.N. health agency in the region. He said about $1 million worth of drugs have been sent from U.N. warehouses alone to Haitian hospitals in the past three weeks. Hospitals don't need to charge patients to pay their staff, because Haitian Health Ministry employ ees are getting paid with donated money, Rerat added. Haiti now has about 90 hospi tals, including public and private hospitals and field hospitals set up in the quake's aftermath. A member of the Haitian gov- Wear it Believe it elegan 2 -~~ www.YourElegantAffairs.com 1400Nni 1n Mopes Clothing Shop 114 V. CAgeohietwel4 State College 514234,0275 cc) WORLD ernment commission created to deal with the medical crisis, Dr. Jean Hugues Henry, said he had no knowledge of any hospitals charging for services or medicine. U.N. officials said beginning immediately, any hospital found levying fees for medicine will be cut off. But the U.N. would consid er continuing to supply non-gov ernmental groups working at pri vate hospitals with drugs if those groups can make a convincing case that none of their patients are being charged. U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie, meanwhile, wa: heading to Haiti to meet with earthquake victims on Tuesday after speaking with hospitalized quake survivors in the neighboring Dominican Republic. lis -1/aPetituie'scDa9.. we A JAPANESE & KOREAN RESTAURANT Lunch Tues. - Sat 11:30am - 3:oopm Dinner •11P Tues. - Thurs. 4:3opm -930 pm Fri. - SaL 4:3opm - 10:00pm A 310 S. Allele St. Stile College, PA (814) 238-2144 This 'Valentine's Day en 11:30am to 9:3opm PENN STATE BOOKSTORE A AGE: E I ,ENT-5 , t , AIDEZ-E 600K5a- Get your Nil En Valentine a special gift from the POIE En Valentine's Bay Ilea) quarters The har SI& Bookstore! wv\i\i\lingopsusports.com/store PENN STATE BOOKSTORE 13. 40.,1111-r. • ,•• Ng* • 1 . 4+.• • * • • , I „ • I s 401 Andres Le a•e-P A dehydrated baby is given fluids by a nurse of the Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago at the makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince. The UN has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immedi ately if it finds that any Haitian hospitals are charging patients. I t /, STATE COLLEGE'S #1 ETHNIC RESTAURANT V 4 l • I 'SiBl4 '3B (ow 1 '2. \\ ( , di,,l,_ \\ 41174.-fr o r ) • k ' FERN tk., /Mr t BRICK OYENWBAR to, Lunch Specials Lll:3oam-3pA TS ,>o*.ner tor two ext Ote.Xlr24llll rn. F T7,77rl PENN STATE BOOK9T a )RE PENN STATE BOOKSTORE rAN . ,' THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -4 44 ib:11c; 514634.4.82.3 NOE_E EriDCSE..,F.Rt
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