Hundreds of Southern California Nurses Volunteer To Go To Haiti

First Posted: 3/18/10 Updated: 5/25/11

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Los Angeles Times:

Hundreds of Southland doctors and nurses were preparing today to travel to Haiti to aid relief efforts. More than 400 nurses in Southern California have volunteered to travel there in response to an appeal from National Nurses United, a 150,000-member nurses union.

More than 4,500 nurses have volunteered nationally, a union spokesman said.

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