Haiti
Patients and More Patients
The past few weeks have been extremely busy for us in the clinic, as we strive to care for all who come to us for medical assistance. Here is a gentleman with a fever, awaiting diagnosis and treatment recommendations: This little girl wasn’t particularly sick, but she sure was cute: Kivens Jean is a three…
Read MoreAnother Road Story!
For the past three years, construction has been under way to pave the road between Les Cayes, on the southern coast of the southern peninsula of Haiti, to Jérémie on the northern coast. As such, I thought I wouldn’t be sharing any more “road stories” with you. The old road was narrow, rocky and treacherous…
Read MoreAnother Road Story
Those of you who read this blog regularly know that our road trips back and forth to Port-au-Prince are often the fodder for interesting stories, not to mention sometimes-dangerous experiences. We had thought that, now that the road from Jérémie to Aux Cayes is under construction and less treacherous, the road stories would become few…
Read MoreRoad Trips and Politics
As many of you may know, we are in the middle of a 3-year project to improve and pave the road between Cayes, on the southern coast and Jérémie, on the northern coast of the southern peninsula of Haiti. We’ve traveled on the “new” road several times in the past few months and each time…
Read MoreNational Day of Mourning
January 12, 2011, the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that occurred in Haiti, is a national day of mourning in the country. Over 200,000 people died and hundreds of thousands were injured that day. 1.5 million were left homeless, the majority of whom are still living in temporary shelters and tents in Port-au-Prince and…
Read MoreWhatever Happened To The Clothes????
As some of you may know, last spring we sent out an appeal to the churches in the New Brunswick, NJ Presbytery for used clothes and shoes to be sent to Haiti. We were packing up some drums with backpacks that had been donated by high school students in Wisconsin and wanted some clothes to…
Read MoreMurder Investigation Update
This update refers to my previous blog from December 9th. Yesterday we met with the local government leader who works in the area where the three murders occurred. He said that Thursday night, he was called to investigate the situation and he interviewed several people and summoned the commissioner, or highest government lawyer in Jeremie,…
Read MoreCholera and Vigilante Justice
Today was a day I’ll not forget for a long time – a day where rumor became reality and justice seems like a nonexistent dream. Let me first give you some background. Over the past two weeks, there have been reports of cholera cases here in the Jeremie area, but it has been difficult to…
Read MoreHurricane Aftermath
We were able to drive up to our clinic on Tuesday this week, finding the road very slippery and gutted out, but passable. We had to put our jeep into 4-wheel drive “low” position, that gives the most power, so we could make it up some of the steep, slippery hills. Our patients were grateful…
Read MoreCholera reaches Port-au-Prince
The cholera epidemic has now reached Port-au-Prince, according to Haitian government health officials. Over 70 cases have been identified in people who live in Port-au-Prince, but contracted the disease while visiting outside the capital. Several cases have been reported in patients who have not left the capital city, which means that it was acquired there,…
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