From our news feed: messages from PIH/ZL staff
Posted on Jan 16, 2010
What's been on the minds of Partners In Health/Zanmi Lasante staff over the past 24 hours? Below are just a few thoughts plucked from the torrent of emails that circulated through our servers:
- From ER in Hinche: “Patients trickling in throughout the night. Doing all the surgeries we can around the clock."
- From St. Marc Hospital: “We are receiving a lot of people. Most of them are surgery cases. We have operating rooms, anesthesiologist, nurses, equipment but no surgeons.”
- From a PIH doctor helping out at Diquini Hospital: “There are about hundred people lying on the floor and suffering. The pharmacy there ran out… Now I worry about infections of wounds and septicemia.”
- From Belledere: CHAI truck from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic arrives with surgical supplies and "First Things First" kits.
- From Florida: Planes with surgical teams (30 people) arriving in Port-au-Prince later today!
- In Cange: Getting desperate for diesel. Fuel costs are soaring to $25/gallon in-country.
