More on the ground in Haiti with Dr Raymond (day 2)

We started our day by going to one of the tent cities and Dr Raymond examine some small children who seem to be developing some kind of dermatological disease due to the lack of hygiene and the promiscuity. We noticed that many of the children had no shoes, which is a fact for most children living in the tent cities. We distributed some of the shoes that we had brought for this purpose. One of the families we spoke with informed us that prior to the earthquake they both had jobs and with their home and jobs being destroyed they now have to live in a tent where they have to struggle for their daily bread.  From there we headed back to the hospital to search for one of the victims that Dr had known before during his previous visit (her story will be told in another blog post), once again we found the internal medicine with very few medical staff and conditions not very desirable due to no electricity. However, these concrete buildings were cooler than the medical tents where we worked the day before in podiatric, but probably not fully used due to the damage from the earthquake.

From there we went to the surgery tent and observed a patient that had typhus peritonitis and discussed the diagnosis with his doctor. The tent had several fans but none worked because of no electricity.

Since so many nurse students died from the earthquake, Dr Raymond went to the school of nursing to discuss with the director the possibility of some sort of exchange program to help with the education during this shortage period. While there, He visited one of the classes and shared a word of encouragement to the students. Once again the tent was very hot with fans but no electricity. I don’t understand why there is no generator at many of these medical tents.  Then we went to the hospital lab which is located outside with three phlebotomists collecting samples in an indescribable condition (use your imagination).

Next we made a home visit to a patient and met the family. One more word, it is overwhelmed-

Tomorrow our day will in the tent cities.

Mr. Rogers Wells

Haiti/with Dr Raymond

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