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Though accessible by roads, small crafts and by sea, the westerly fishing community of Dame Marie still proves an isolated area. As such, practicing medicine can be a bit of a hardship. A couple of years ago, the operating room of the local hospital was returned to full function, enabling a visiting team to perform over thirty, life saving surgeries that week. It was part of a veterans visit from ST. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut to ten hospitals in four Haitian cities during October of 2011.

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