[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 43 (Thursday, March 13, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E405]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               HONORING THE MIAMI MEDICAL TEAM FOUNDATION

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                        HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 13, 2008

  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Speaker, I would like to take this 
opportunity to recognize a wonderful organization in my home State and 
district in Florida, the Miami Medical Team Foundation, M.M.T.F. The 
M.M.T.F. is celebrating their 25th year as a local organization with 
worldwide significance and deserves more than a moment of recognition 
for their service.
  The Miami Medical Team Foundation is a group of wonderful people that 
have formed a nonprofit, humanitarian, self-supported organization 
whose goals are the improvement of the sanitary and medical conditions 
in Third World countries.
  The M.M.T.F. is composed at its core by medical doctors of all 
specialties, but as well, nurses, physical therapists, medical 
technicians, and Pharmacists. Founded in the early 1980s when refugees 
began piling in the borders between Nicaragua and Honduras, the group 
has since been involved in many different scenarios of tragedy in five 
continents of our planet, providing assistance to a total of 19 
countries and makes available medical and surgical teams and the 
shipping of donated medicine and medical equipment. Members of the 
M.M.T.F. have always covered the costs of each and every humanitarian 
operation they embark on.
  With the strong leadership of their president, Dr. Manuel A. 
Alzugaray, they have seen their efforts put to amazing use. Manuel is a 
dedicated individual with a professionalism that can not be easily 
matched. I know that it will he with his guidance that the M.M.T.F. 
will continue to play a vital role in making sure the world's most 
disadvantaged populations receive the timely care that they so 
desperately deserve.
  Again, I praise the Miami Medical Team Foundation for all their 
successful initiatives across the globe and moreover, I commend them 
for their willingness to operate as a financially independent 
organization that could not exist without its members' dedication to 
the noble principles that they hold so dear. For all that the Miami 
Medical Team Foundation has done in support of their global 
humanitarian mission, and will certainly continue to do, I thank them 
so very much.

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