Hey everyone, just a quick update from the front line. We had 13 people in the hospital overnight, which sets a new record here. Included in that number are 3 or 4 young children- 2 to 4 years old. I think I counted 7 IV’s running. So far everyone that has been released from the […]
Greetings to all in the name of Jesus, the King of kings, and Lord of lords! As we consider the situation here, with the special Cholera Treatment Center being put up, and the continuing potentially epidemic nature of the outbreak spurned on by local circumstances, we have decided to make a separate blog to cover
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As promised, here are some pictures from the Cholera Treatment Center (CTC)… *** Getting everything ready for the first patient… Here’s our first patient: the man with the brown and white striped shirt… He needed some others to help him get into the CTC. Preparing to inspect and admit patient… After being checked out, the infected man
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Sorry we’ve been so slow at getting out info, I know many of you are praying about the situation with cholera here and wondering how things are going. So far things have been fairly quiet at the cholera treatment center (CTC) we officially opened this Monday afternoon. Jeriah Mast from CAM and a crew of
Hey, just a quick prayer request from the mission back in Ailegue. It seems that cholera, which seemed to be in remission around Haiti, has possibly come to the Les Palme area!! Please keep this in your prayers as we try to determine the extent of the problem, and what our response to it should
It was a bad night… We had gotten a late start, and wereleaving Ailegue to attempt hauling 16 batteries and a drumof diesel fuel up to Terre Rouge. Everyone was going alongup for supper, the road was muddy, we had to pull thedump truck with the gator just to get to the foot of JackRabbit…
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Well, I know I just wrote, but I said we had a lady in labor at the clinic on the last post. . . It rained and rained last night so when we went to head down to check on her, we put our rain coats on. It was a wet muddy walk. Ready to
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I couldn’t resist showing you all another one of the babies born at clinic. After a few very traumatic births recently, we were very happy when the last baby was born vigorous and crying! We actually have a lady in labor at the clinic now so we might not get a lot of sleep tonight.
Apparently, a rock throwing incident caused this young gentleman to seekrefuge on the front porch. It wasn’t too serious, just a little bandage job. Andrew Klewin from WA is staying down here for a little over a month…He’s not here to work with the clinic, but does happen to be an EMTso he enjoys getting
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Left to right: Father, 12 year-old brother, mother, assistant holding baby. This is the second of 2 births this week at clinic. In this picture they are almost ready to head for home. This lady came in around 6:30 or so in the morning. When we went down a little before clinic time, we decided
