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Tramuto founded Boston-based nonprofit Health eVillages to deliver information technology to doctors working in Haiti and across the world. ~Boston Globe
(Post republished from BostonGlobe.com)
Four years ago, Donato Tramuto, chairman and founder of Health eVillages, was walking through a hospital in Haiti when he heard a piercing scream. A nurse told him they were resetting a young boy’s leg without pain medication. “I asked why, and she said that there’s no protocol for pain medication,” he remembers. “No one should have to go through that experience.”