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Northwest Medical Teams International: NWMT Indonesia Quake Update
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“This is one desti- nation I’ll never forget,” says Janey Pinneo, wife of Horizon Air CEO Jeff Pinneo. She’s visited some of the world’s most incredible destinations. But her recent trip with Northwest Medical Teams took Pinneo to one of the world’s most forgotten places.
An R.N. from Gig Harbor, WA, a pediatrician from Michigan and a physician's assistant from Montana join two NWMT staffers in the earthquake zone on the island of Java. Each of the highly trained medical volunteers is bringing supplies of critically needed antibiotics, surgical kits and bandages to care for up to 40,000 people.
Tens of thousands of Indonesians are now living in tents in and around the city of Yogyakarta, while rescue workers continue to pull bodies from the rubble of Saturday's 6.3 magnitude earthquake. The quake levelled entire villages, reducing homes to jumbled piles of wood, tiles and metal.
