Doctors work tirelessly to aid injured
by David Darg
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Our emergency paramedic team arrived yesterday morning from Israel. We immediately equipped them with medicines and transported them into the heart of the quake zone and to the National Hospital, the same hospital where we were working on the day the quake struck (see day 1 blog).
Since that moment the hospital has been inundated with patients, with too few doctors to keep up with the influx of emergency cases. The halls are filled with the groans of the untreated, the screams of those undergoing treatment, and the stench of those who didn’t make it.
The Israeli doctors were incredible; they worked tirelessly and were extremely reluctant to leave with so many patients still waiting to be seen. But we had to pull them back to the airport before nightfall because of the lack of security in downtown Port-au-Prince.
The airport is filling with more and more relief teams every day. The relief camp looks like an Olympic village with national flags flying from nations all over the world. The OBI team unloaded 3 flights that came in from Florida, including medicines and supplies, which we will be using in the national hospital and during mobile medical missions.
On an assessment trip today, our team found a soccer field where 2,000 people are camping. They had self assigned a coordinator who came and spoke to us. It turned out the 2,000 people, many of them sick or injured, only had one doctor in the whole camp. We have agreed to visit the camp tomorrow and set up a clinic, provide some food distribution and give out non-food items such as hygiene supplies.
Tags: Caribbean, David Darg, Disaster Relief, Earthquake, General Hospital, Haiti, IsraAid, Medical Aid, medical clinic, Medical Supplies, National Hospital, OBI, Operation Blessing, Relief, Relief Aid, Relief Camp, Relief Supplies, Tent City
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January 17th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
How are the Jerry Cans working out? Are very many people being provided with water from them? What can be done over the long range to help folks who have been drinking water with parasites in it? And, in addition, can something be done about wells that are not capped, keeping rodents and other critters out? God bless. In Christ, Carl
January 17th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
David, Thank You for sharing your eyes with us! If I could be there to help I would be!! I pray God grants you rest along with the medical personnel! Please, as others have said, take care of you too! God Bless you!
January 18th, 2010 at 3:33 am
You are a blessing to the whole world, it is so good to know that there are so many compassionate people here on earth. You are all in my prayers. May God bless you abundantly in your missions.
January 18th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
What a blessing to see the Israel’s medical team and operation blessing working togather as one. God’s heart is please to see His people from different nations coming togather to save lives that would other wise would have been lost. He is proud of each and everyone of you. Our prayers are with each and everyone of you for your saftey, strength, and His supernatural wisdom and skills as you continue to save lives.
May the peace of God that passes all understanding, gaurd your hearts and mind through our Lord and Savior.
Shalom to you all!
Barbara.
January 18th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Thank You for being the eyes for those of us who are not yet there. As a Licensed Nurse with Military, Triage and Disaster and Search/Rescue background…I feel so horrible that I am not there doing what I was trained all my life to do. Hopefully, I will be called in to provide rotation Relief and assistance. God Bless you all and please get to those Geriatrics and children at the orphan homes that have yet to receive visits from ANYONE!
January 20th, 2010 at 7:58 am
Praying for all of you. Tell Tony that we have him covered in prayer. God bless all of you as you touch those people in ways we will never fully know.