We got up at 6:00 am and rode the bus for about 7 hours to the Haitian border. We made it to the compound that has a makeshift hospital and orphanage, and before we could set up our tents, we were asked to go with two trucks to the airport in Barona.
We are on a compound with 40 doctors, doing 15-20 surgeries a day. There are about 400 Haitians on site, many kids, babies and amputees. We are doing support and organizing medical supplies and doing inventory as items come in. The doctors were thrilled to get the medical supplies we brought. They did not have a blood glucose monitor on the entire compound. We have armed guards at the compound, so we are safe.
At the airport we loaded 48,000 pounds of medical supplies and food in two trucks. When we got back to the compound we unloaded them. We just finished getting medical supplies out of a container to be used to set up another hospital and just sat down for a breather.
It is now 11:30 pm (a 17-1/2 hour day). We are going to get to bed soon so we can help tomorrow. We were told that we might go and help set up an entire operating room in another area of Port au Prince.
- John