DanKennedy.net
Globe health and science editor Gideon Gil told a Northeastern University audience that the Haiti story is rooted in Boston in two ways: more than 55,000 Haitian-Americans live in the Boston area; and Boston’s world-renowned hospitals were (and are) major players in the relief effort.

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