On the Ground from Haiti
Hi, Noel Lloyd from the DR.
It’s been a pretty eventful day here at the hospital in Santo Domingo.
It started with the arrival of a patient from Haiti about whom I had written earlier in the day…and ended with the homecoming of two original members of the CURE Haiti Relief Team: Steve Bostian and Susan Beemer. Both are exhausted, but safely home.
Another safe arrival we celebrated on Thursday was that of the team from Dallas into Haiti.
Coming in with the Dallas crew was Bryce Flurie, from the CURE Pennsylvania office. Bryce is on the ground to get stories and images from the hospital. We’ve already posted a couple of his pictures.
I received a call from him this afternoon right after his arrival at the Community Hospital of Haiti, and he reported that there was activity everywhere as the trucks that had accompanied the team were being unloaded.
“People have formed a bucket brigade unloading supplies from the trucks that came with us. The local kids are helping out,” he said.
Bryce went on to describe the tent city that had been created around the hospital by the patients who were waiting for their turn for treatment.
Later on in the evening, he sent me this update.
So, I haven’t had more than five minutes of sleep in close to two days, but that is nothing compared to the sacrifice of the folks here. No one is turned away, there are doctors making rounds and as everyone sits in the makeshift group room they discuss the cases…like how do you treat tetanus since no one has seen it in the states.
I’m hearing stories of the kids that melt your heart…listening to a veteran doctor talk about how difficult it was to amputate a girl’s arm…then to see her in a pretty dress smiling the next day, knowing she’ll be ok.
I had prepared for the worst…sure there are still hungry people here, people who are in excruciating physical pain and people with absolutely nothing but a sheet and a piece of cardboard to lay on.
But nothing can replace the smile on the young girl’s face, who had just lost her arm a couple days before, when she sees a proper cot brought in to replace the rotting foam she had been laying on.
People are still people, kids still smile when a weird looking man with a big camera makes a funny face at them and God is still good…even in the midst of complete devastation.
Keep looking for more posts (and photos) from Bryce.
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