March 2005 Highlights
Posted on1. WiRED launches Medical Information Center in Novi Sad; 2. WiRED welcomes Stephen Browning to the Board of Trustees; 3. WiRED announces a new webpage portal that will provide current medical information.
1. WiRED launches Medical Information Center in Novi Sad; 2. WiRED welcomes Stephen Browning to the Board of Trustees; 3. WiRED announces a new webpage portal that will provide current medical information.
1. South Aisa Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster; 2. WiRED welcomes Anderson D. Clark to the Board of Trustees; 3. WiRED salutes its volunteers.
1. WiRED mourns the loss of diplomat in Iraq; 2. WiRED opens two new Medical Information Centers in the Former Yugoslavia; WiRED salutes its volunteers
WiRED expanded its Medical Information Center project in the former Yugoslavia with the launch of Centers in the Medical Faculty at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo and at the Medical Faculty at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Both facilities now provide doctors and medical students with information from a medical CD collection and medical Websites.
Jim Mollen was killed in Iraq on the day before Thanksgiving. Mollen was the U.S. Embassy’s senior advisor on Iraqi educational matters. He was shot to death in a car outside the Green Zone while traveling from a meeting.
Plans for a December installation of the 17 Centers has been delayed because of increasing violence in and around Baghdad and other cities. Pre-election assaults on the population and on government officials have has made transportation and installation of the equipment very difficult everywhere and impossible in some regions…”
1. WiRED continues to provide the Iraqi medical community with healthcare information; 2. WiRED salutes its volunteers
1. WiRED’s Community Health Information Centers in Kenya serve more than 6,000 individuals during September with the HIV/AIDS prevention message; 2. WiRED salutes its volunteers; 3. WiRED shares in the grief over the loss of Christopher Reeve
1. WiRED’s Community Health Information Centers engage clients in a safe, non-judgmental manner; 2.Despite the security difficulties confronting organizations in Iraq, WiRED is planning to install an additional six Medical Information Centers in the northern region of the country; 3. With help from the Tiburon-Belvedere Rotary Club in California, and the Rotary Club in Leon, Nicaragua, WiRED is planning this fall to expand its Medical Information Center program into Honduras.
WiRED International, on August 6, 2004 opened the doors to the second of its Medical Information Centers (MIC) in Leon, Nicaragua. The ribbon cutting launched a seven-station electronic library that will be used by several hundred faculty and medical students at the Centro de Salud de Sutiava Clinic.