Update: Full handover to the new AFH medical team has gone smoothly.
The medical challenges came full force as soon as they hit the ground. Within the first two hours “we had Chloroquine toxicity and an eyelid laceration I closed in the dark by flashlights and flies. The city is heavily damaged. People kept stopping us to ask if we were there to help them. This is going to be an interesting week” said one doctor. Becoming entrenched as the major source of medical care for the large city continues to pose new challenges to the new team of five doctors and nurses. “Traumas are rolling in around the clock, mostly motorcycle accidents and I think that we have delivered multiple babies each day” said one doctor. “All at once I had what would have been four level one trauma patients involved in a accident where a motorcycle ran into a person. Five minutes later I had
two burn victims with much of their body burned, five minutes later I had a nine month pregnant pt with severe high blood pressure. I never thought I would coordinate a mass casualty event in haiti” said another. One eight year old child with second degree burns and infections proved especially difficult. Unable to find any other care for the child, the team was forced to create a makeshift intensive care unit in the newly built clinic space. Groups of nurses and doctors were assembled and worked in shifts throughout the night keeping the child alive until help could be found in the morning.
Thank you for the prayers. The entire first team arrive back in the United States safely and little worse for wear. Please pray that plans will continue to provide medical care for the people of this region for the next few critical months. God is opening many doors and we pray He gives us the courage and strength to walk through them. Aid for Haiti is growing by leaps and bounds each day, please pray that this continues and we work diligently to
be the organization that God desires.

If you know of any doctors and nurses that are interested in going to Haiti as part of a relief team please contact us. In addition, if you know of any medical supplies, we have great need. Lastly, as always this could never have been done without your faithful support. Thank you

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