Piatt County group to help in Dominican medical mission

A group of five Piatt County women are headed to the Caribbean next month, but their week in the Dominican Republic will be far from a vacation.

Dr. Ann Marty, Christy Barre, Judy Ooten and Marita Romine have volunteered to serve on a medical mission through Great Opportunities in Global Outreach. Also attending will be Marty's 13-year-old daughter, Leah.

The group — the first three are employed at Monticello's Carle Clinic — will see up to 300 patients in a day as they set up a clinic at Batey Nueve aimed at treating the families of Haitian workers in the Dominican sugar cane fields.

That's a far cry from the 20 or so Marty sees daily at her local practice.

"We're going to share God's love. Really, that's why I go," said Marty, of Monticello,Eight tips for choosing the right diamond Concrete saw blade including determining wet or dry cutting, blade compatibility, CSDA codes, and more. who along with Barre made a similar mission trip in 2007.keep an eye out for Ephedra, which has been banned by the FDA, and check labels for bitter orange, also referred to as synephrine

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It is Ooten's first mission trip, and it was spurred by her daughter and son-in-law's upcoming adoption of a 7-year-old boy from Haiti.

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Romine, of White Heath, is retired from the University of Illinois. She grew up in Peru and said she has "seen places like this (Dominican), and I'm excited to be able to help." The group also hopes to make liberal use of her fluency in Spanish.

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Marty and Barre are excited for Ooten and Romine to see what they saw in 2007 — an appreciative people being treated for everything from scabies and hypertension to heart murmurs and machete wounds.