Operation Haiti

When a group of physicians from Long Island asked Dr. Robert Brady to accompany them to help earthquake victims in Port au Prince, Haiti, Brady didn’t hesitate with his response. “I have a reputation for doing these charitable missions and they needed an orthopedic surgeon,” Brady humbly explains.

Brady, who is no stranger to taking philanthropic journeys around the globe to help those in need, found this trip to be one of his most difficult yet. “I’ve worked in third world nations before, but this was the first time that I’ve seen an infrastructure so disorganized. The doctors and nurses were so overwhelmed that they became an obstruction; preventing us from getting things done; they are battling for themselves and don’t have the capacity to think about others,” explains Brady

Brady ministered to the needy in Port au Prince for a week. He performed 13 surgeries and attended to multiple limb fractures and other acute injuries . The Haitians can no longer keep the hospitals sterile due to the dilapidation of the buildings. “It was better to perform medical care in the tents because hospitals were not sterile,” explains Brady.

“There is a lot of suffering- we can’t always understand it, but we need to be aware that there are people who don’t have access to the things we have here; it is very fulfilling and reminds me that this is why I got into medicine,” says Brady.

Dr. Brady and his family live in Ridgefield. He founded his own philanthropic mission called The Straight Caribbean Spine Foundation. Brady practices orthopedics at Coastal Orthopedics in Norwalk.