At Petit Goave, you can look out over the sea and see a Spanish warship that is acting as a hospital ship. On land, the marines are building a more permanent clinic building, but meanwhile clinic is taking place under a tarp. 
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Petit Goave
At Petit Goave, you can look out over the sea and see a Spanish warship that is acting as a hospital ship. On land, the marines are building a more permanent clinic building, but meanwhile clinic is taking place under a tarp. 
Heading to Petit Goave
The 15 member team slept on the floor of the preschool classroom last night and headed for Petit Goave, on the coast 30 miles west of Port au Prince
. They will set up a clinic with OB/Gyn capabilities for the next 3 days at a primitive tent camp there. For the past few days, people have been leaving Port au Prince in droves, so the medical needs are in rural areas now. They will be spending at least the next two nights in this tent city.
. They will set up a clinic with OB/Gyn capabilities for the next 3 days at a primitive tent camp there. For the past few days, people have been leaving Port au Prince in droves, so the medical needs are in rural areas now. They will be spending at least the next two nights in this tent city.Keith took this picture of rubble as they drove out of Port au Prince. He sent the email of Janet Dorrell and the adorable little girl late afternoon. He had promised Claire Conradt he would take a picture of a little Haitian girl. Absolutely adorable!
I spoke with Keith about 7:30 tonight and he said the day had gone very well. The bus ride from PAP to Petit Goave took a long time because it was over the mountains, but they are now by the sea and it is beautiful, with a nice breeze. The marines are there building some type of clinic for them. The team that was there for the past several days worked with them today to get them acclimated and will leave tomorrow. Keith did some hands-on things like putting IVs into dehydrated babies, and he dug a 4 inch piece of bamboo out of a man's leg. It had been in there since the earthquake.
The Haitians cooked an unidentified type of fish for them for dinner. Please pray for good health, as one of the nurses has gastroenteritis. He did not know yet where they will sleep tonight, so pray for a sound night's sleep as well.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The team arrived safely in Haiti. They travelled to the school, El Quesqueya, where they will sleep tonight. In the morning they will travel 3 hours to a primitive tent village where they will set up a clinic with OB/GYN capabilities. They will spend the night in that primitive tent camp tomorrow night (not the army one pictured here). Keith commented on how amazing the organization is between the Army and National Guard officers as far as assessing the need and assigning workers to those areas.The part of the team that
arrived earlier spent Wednesday seeing 110 patients, as many of the cases were severe. They tended to a dying baby, a couple of ladies with eye infections that had to be lanced, and many others.They worked all day under the hot sun without much rest.
The Flight in to Port au Prince
Living it up! A private chartered jet funded by an anonymous donor, complete with stewardess and all.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Travel Details
We found out that due to the difficulty of scheduling flights into Haiti, half the group left Sunday night and the remaining 7 left this morning. Keith's travelling companions consist of Dr. Steve Raley, Kevin Steele (a P.A.), Janet Dorrell (water filtration specialist), a nurse, and Heather Bonne and Danny Mulkey, 2 clinic coordinators who are on staff at Antioch. They drove to Killeen and caught a flight to Miami. They are spending the night at the Fairfield Inn (not on the floor in the airport, PTL), and they will drive to Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow morning and then catch an 11 a.m. chartered jet directly into Port au Prince. That's a lot better than a 12 hour bus-ride from the Dominican Republic to PAP.
I got an email from Mick Murray, a member of the other part of the team. He said the first team arrived at the school Monday and when they woke Tuesday, they took cold showers, ate cold oatmeal, and headed to Carre Four, the site of the orphanage featured on Fox News. They were able to treat over 175 people Tuesday, praying for healing for each one. They were able to save one lady who was having a heart attack. Nate Bobbett, one of the team members, accompanied her to the hospital, riding in the back of a pickup truck and holding her IV as they bounced over rough roads. They finished the day with a hot shower and a hot meal. There was a Haitian man giving haircuts to a group of US Special Forces, so many of the guys got a trim as well.
I got an email from Mick Murray, a member of the other part of the team. He said the first team arrived at the school Monday and when they woke Tuesday, they took cold showers, ate cold oatmeal, and headed to Carre Four, the site of the orphanage featured on Fox News. They were able to treat over 175 people Tuesday, praying for healing for each one. They were able to save one lady who was having a heart attack. Nate Bobbett, one of the team members, accompanied her to the hospital, riding in the back of a pickup truck and holding her IV as they bounced over rough roads. They finished the day with a hot shower and a hot meal. There was a Haitian man giving haircuts to a group of US Special Forces, so many of the guys got a trim as well.
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