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Project to bring docs to Montana reservations. Just don’t get sick after June 1.

July 29, 2007 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Billings surgeon Joseph Erpelding has ridden a ferry boat equipped with a blood lab up the Amazon in an aid effort through his church, Faith Chapel.

He’s traveled to Zambia to treat children with trachoma, an eye infection that blinds millions in Third World countries, through an aid group called Save the Sight.

But some of his most important work has been in Montana, where he’s worked for a decade as a contract Indian Health Service surgeon, mostly on the Crow and Cheyenne reservations.

National Indian Health Board http://www.nihb.org/

By KAREN OGDEN
Tribune Enterprise Editor

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070729/NEWS01/707290321

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Indian Country suffers long waits for care

By KAREN OGDEN and RICHARD PETERSON Tribune Staff Writers

Don’t get sick after June 1.

In Indian Country it’s a joke, and a sad reality for the 1.9 million patients of the federal Indian Health Service.

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070729/NEWS01/707290316/1002