Doctors to Phillippines
49 views · Published 31 January 2014 · 2:31 · Indexed 27 September 2026
Channel: WLOS News 13 · 2014 · News & Politics
Two local doctors are headed to the Philippines to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan. Dr. Obie Cuento and Dr. Ellen Lawson of Sisters of Mercy Services in Asheville are part of a team of eight. Dr. Cuento says they will work in an abandoned hospital in Tacloban, without electricity, running water, fuel or internet. The two doctors recently returned from Haiti.Cuento, a native of the Philippines, says he is ready to helping as many people as he can in his native country. If you want to help out, click here. Or you can write a check to Catherine McAuley Mercy Foundation P.O. Box 16367 Asheville, NC 28816 _______________ Follow WLOS on social media: WLOS ABC 13 News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News13/ WLOS ABC 13 News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WLOS_13 WLOS ABC 13 News on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wlos_13 Subscribe to WLOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABC13Channel/?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to AnchorMOMS, the Podcast: https://wlos.com/news/anchormoms/anchormoms-the-podcast Watch more top local news stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8Ge6UXHJs&list=PLkVbaoT-aYbIvnEpR0Ct5QQQqYaORUSUH For all of the day’s top local and national news, visit http://www.wlos.com Watch our live newscasts and other live video at https://wlos.com/watch Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: [email protected] Call the Newsroom: 828.684.1340 WLOS ABC 13 News serves the Asheville, NC area and the rest of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. We keep our audience informed through local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of community events, sports and entertainment programming since 1954.
