Send 12,000 Nurses To Haiti

[lame54]

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http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/

National Nurses United has launched a relief effort to send registered nurses to Haiti. Over 12,000 nurses have already answered the call. There’s just one problem: the cost of sending them. Every dollar you donate will go to providing the resources nurses need to care for the survivors of this tragedy.

https://secure.ga1.org/05/rnrn_relief_fund

http://calnursesfoundation.org/

[izquierdista]

1. Not to be snarky, but....

Wouldn't the money go farther if you just got the nurses a direct ticket from Manila to Port-a-Prince, without the stop in California?

[lame54]

2. I'm not sure where you read that

[izquierdista]

3. I'm extrapolating

California is already importing large numbers of nurses from the Philippines (and other low wage countries, because hospitals want to squeeze wages), and is not really in a position to export workers. Donors could fund two or three times the number of nurses if they went directly from low wage countries to Haiti.

I'm not exactly sure how a volunteer nurse program to Haiti could be used to break a nurse's union in the U.S., but if there is, management will find it.