Knights of Columbus Media Advisory: Monday Morning News Conference on Shipment of Prosthetic Limbs to Haitian Children

Prosthetic limbs for children in Haiti will be shipped out next week, and key officials of the Miami-based Project Medishare/Global Institute and the Connecticut-based Knights of Columbus will hold a news conference to discuss details of the project on Monday morning, November 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

The event will be held at the warehouse where the shipment is being readied, Maramed, at 2480 West 82nd Street #A1, in Hialeah, Florida.

In August, the Knights of Columbus announced that it would donate $1 million to enable Project Medishare to provide prosthetic arms and legs to every Haitian child who lost a limb in the January earthquake. The program will provide each of the children with up to three prosthetic limbs (they must be replaced as a child grows), as well as several years of physical therapy.

Participants in the news conference will include:

Dr. Barth Green, President of Project Medishare and Chairman of the Department of the Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Emilio Moure, Supreme Secretary of the Knights of Columbus

Dr. Robert Gailey, Associate Professor, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Arthur Finnieston, Extreme Prosthetics (manufacturer of the prosthetic devices)

There will be opportunities for one-on-one interviews and for gathering video of the prosthetic devices being sent to Haiti.

A separate news release to follow will provide additional details.