This was another exciting and productive day that began @ 6 am. Our first team of 2 docs, 2 nurses, 3 assistants (I was one) and a dentist went to the village of La Coupe. This is a village very high in the mountains. The villagers were incredibly patient. The team saw 300-400 patients. As always there are children who make you laugh and smile and those that break your heart. There was one hypertonic two year old girl that was particularly sad. She only weighed ten pounds, in the U.S. her situation would have been fixed immediately but here, at this late stage, there is nothing we could do. She will probably pass by the end of the month. This made everyone cry while at La Coupe. Good news is that with the antibiotics and other wonderful medications given to us by the group that flew us down, many people were able to rest easier.
Our second team of four went to Perisse. They saw patients in the church and were quite surprised at the number of sick children they saw with pneumonia and other serious illnesses. Over 200 sick kids were treated. This team got the opportunity to go to the hospital in St. Marc to deliver meds and other supplies. There were some amazing volunteers there from the Canada and the U.S. We made plans tonight to take three very critical patients from the villages to this hospital. These patients both have serious infections in the face and neck.
We are so thankful for the travel mercies granted us today as our team moved in opposite directions, saving lives, one at a time.
Tomorrow we are going to a Haitian wedding!
*the post was written by Andrea, a nurse on the mission team
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