Local aid group, doctors help track Haitian killer

It was a problem Lynn Gorton wasn’t supposed to deal with.

A Haitian woman was sitting in Ms. Gorton’s office at the U.S. Agency for International Development here, begging for her son’s life.

The 2-year-old was dying of a mysterious illness that was shutting down children’s kidneys. It already had claimed at least 50 victims…

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Area hospitals provide services for the asking

True or False: Foreign children can get free medical care in the United States, but American youngsters don’t have access to the same treatments.

The statement is false but seems true to a lot of people who watch youngsters from all over the world come to Toledo for free medical treatment. Brought here by International Services of Hope/Impact, the children stay with foster families or with Stan and Linda Greene, who run Impact.

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