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Today a woman came in with her newborn baby girl. It is severely emaciated, and when asked when the last time it ate, she said it hadn’t eaten since it was born– 15 days ago! Michael, Anita and Virginia are working hard to keep it alive and revive it. It’s in very bad shape. Please […]

Right on the heals of the little girl with rock injuries came a man with a large cut on his head… caused by (you guessed it) a rock! Apparently he had been in his garden, sharpening his sepid (a curved tool, used for lightly tilling the ground and chopping weeds- similar to a small scythe)

Depending where you live in the States, it may seem strange to have people coming into a hospital with deep wounds caused by falling rocks. Down here in Haiti it is pretty rare when we don’t have patients coming in with serious injuries caused by either a rock falling on them, or they falling on

Perhaps you have never heard of folliculitis?  No?  That’s ok.  Neither did I until this afternoon when a man and his boy came to the gate! The boy’s face was all swollen, and he could only see out of one eye.  His hair was dirty, with infection oozing out the top of his head. After looking

We had a man come to the mission the other day with a huge cut down his forehead… apparently he was sitting in his house when someone came in to rob him. He didn’t hear them come in, and they bashed him over the head. We don’t know if the robber(s) got away with anything.

The other day we had two people come in with things stuck in their ears!  Michael was probably feeling like a professional ear-cleaner at the end! As I came up to the clinic, this little boy was laid out on his dad’s lap, with Michael bent over him! Apparently (the father told him) the boy

This little guy was riding along on a horse with someone else when the animal went out of control. He ended up crashing to the ground, hitting his head on a rock. They rushed him down here, where Michael stitched him up.

We had two little boys come in, both with serious conditions.  The little boy in the yellow shirt had a “strangulated hernia”. Michael realizd there was nothing he could do for the little boy, and that he needed to be taken out to town. So, last evening, he took the little boy out with his parents.

Some of you might remember one of our gardeners, Celeste. His wife had a baby the other day, so we wanted to share it with you! Everything went well with the birth. It’s a cute little boy, very healthy! Mama and baby resting and doing good! Typically Haitians wait a little while to name their

Over the weekend there were several expecting mothers that came in. One of them had the baby before she could make it here, so they had to grab a stretcher and carry her from the trail. Once she arrived, the baby began to have seizures because of extreme low blood sugar. Apparently it wasn’t born