| Army doctor gives textbooks to Iraqi nurses
 September 24, 2004
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Maj. Michael Helwig, surgeon for the Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Iraq, turns over donated textbooks to an official from the Ninevah Province Ministry of Health.
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Maj. Michael Helwig and other Army medical professionals in Iraq distributed about 500 donated textbooks to nurses from the Ninevah Province Ministry of Health Sept. 21.
The textbooks will be divided between the area hospitals and universities in Mosul, Irbil and Dahuk, officials said.
“The local hospitals have been using shared photocopied pages out of textbooks for their research,” said Helwig, the Brigade Surgeon for the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team).
Helwig is a 1990 graduate of the University of Florida in Gainesville and a Clearwater, Fla., native.
A group of students at the University of Florida organized a book drive to collect the medical textbooks for the Iraqi nurses. Faculty from the All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., also donated their used textbooks. |
