This time, the doctor isn’t making the house call. Dr. Elihu Wing Jr. will stay put in Providence.
On Saturday, for the 17th consecutive year, the Community Church of Providence is sending a humanitarian delegation to the Dominican Republic for a week. And, for the first time, Wing — now 89, and being treated for leukemia — isn’t part of the team.
But, as always, he organized it.
“He is an amazing evangelist for the hospital,” says the Rev. Evan Drake Howard, pastor of the Community Church of Providence, on Wayland Avenue.
The Good Samaritan Hospital in La Romana, on the Dominican Republic’s southeastern tip, provides medical care to impoverished Haitians working in the sugar-cane industry. Its existence comes from the kindness of strangers, thousands of volunteers from dozens of churches who have contributed money, labor and medical expertise.
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