Ellen Boldon sent this photo of some medicines we received from CRS today.  They were given to us in anticipation of the patients who are going to be sent this week.  We are now on the official list of referral centers for post-operative care. 

We have been anxiously awaiting word on when we would be receiving people.  No one has ever dealt with this scope of disaster and injury before.  No one is prepared for it.  Much to our frustration, things are just barely starting to get organized in Port au Prince.  We hope to start receiving some orthopedic post-op patients and possibly some stabilized spinal cord injuries and burn patients.  We also continue to wait for the children with severe malnutrition that we were told would be sent to us.

We have been treating these past few days of waiting as the calm before the storm.

Ellen

Gas in Port-au-Prince is reported to be $12 per gallong U.S. currency.  There is an acute shortage.

 

 

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