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Ms. Whitmeyer
Joins Planned
Parenthood Group
Kathryn F. Whitmeyer has joined
Planned Parenthood of Greater
Raleigh as clinical services coor
dinator, Pam Kohl, PPGR executive
director, announced Dec. 5.
As clinical services coordinator,
Ms. Whitmeyer will coordinate and
supervise clinic programs at PPGR,'
as well as providing service to pa
tients at the affiliate contraceptive
clinic
“I am pleased to join Planned
Parenthood of Greater Raleigh, an
organization with a tradition of pro
viding quality health care to the
women of Wake County,” Ms.
Whitmeyer said. “It is a pleasure to
work with such a dedicated and hard
working staff.”
Ms. Whitmeyer is a 1986 graduate
of the Bowman Gray School of
Medicine Physician Assistant Pro
gram. She formerly served as physi;
cian assistant in the Adult Health
Division of the Wake County Depart
ment of Health. She is a member of
the American Academy of Physician
Assistants and the North Carolina
Academy of Physician Assistants.
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Physician Launches Angolan Aid Task Fores
The sight of young Angolans
without arms and legs nearly moved
Adewale Troutman to tears. Then,
after learning that the six victims
visiting the United Staes were among
some 90,000 amputees in Angola, the
Newark medical doctor said he vow
ed to make his sentiments and
solidarity known.
Troutman, medical director of
emergency care at the United
Hospital Medical Center of Newark,
is in the process of organizing what he
called an assessment team of black
physicians and health personnel to
launch a program aimed at assisting
Angolan victims of the
U.S.-supported war there.
“I was very saddened, almost
brought to tears, by the appearance
of such young, beautiful children with
limbs amputated, legs blown off. The
next thing that hit me was an over
whelming sense of love for these
children. I felt an immediate sense of
familyhond And the third thing was
r
how can we help make the lives of
these children better,” said Trout
man, also the medical director for the
city of Newark which has adopted
Launda, Angola’s capital, as its sister
city.
The Angolan delegation, brought to
the United States by the Commission
for Racial Justice of the United
Church of Christ, is currently receiv
ing treatment at the Newark Medical
Center. Of the six victims, five are
children. Four of them lost their legs
when they stepped on land mines
reportedly planted by UNITA rebels.
The fifth, an 11-year-old girl, is
paralyzed form the waist down after
reportedly being shot by UNITA
soldiers. Surgeons at the medical
center in Newark removed the bullet
lodged in her spine from the shooting
last February.
The sixth victim is a 49-vear-old
woman whose foot was blown off dur
ing a bombing of Angola by South
African Dianes. She is also scheduled
Ghristmas'DeUghts
to receive an artificial foot.
Troutman, a family practitionei,
said he has received the go-ahead
from the Angolan government to
bring a health delegation to Angola
early next year. He said he is in the
process of “examining a framework
for beginning the program,” looking
for people with both expertise and
commitment.
“We want people who have both
their heart and head in the right
place, ’ ’ said Troutman, who serves as
co-director of the heatth task fores of
e Natioanl Conference of llasfc
Mayors.
Troutman said the first ffcass-'
would involve a preliminary Inal
composed of specialists in pMt1
health, orthopedics, pediatries aadk
prosthetic devices. Their rale wmH*
be to assess the health needs and Is. ’
determine a “systematic treatment
approach.” Treatment teams werttf1
follow, he said.
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