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Liz: Posted on Sunday, November 21, 2010 12:31 PM
Hi All,
In preparation for my next trip to Haiti (leaving this Wednesday) I thought I would give you a little info about what's happening in Haiti this week.
Rampantly unfolding cholera epidemic, wildly underreported. Dead bodies in the streets for days, people too terrified of catching cholera to move them. Children, elderly, pregnant women, men... dying in untold numbers. Clinics overflowing, the fortunate ones get beds with the ass cut out and a bucket underneath, the rest lay in puddles of their own waste on the ground. |
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Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:20 PM
we are working around the clock right now trying to get a plane together full of supplies to treat cholera and get back to Haiti. Anyone interested in helping please contact us immediately |
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Jessica: Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 10:33 PM
Lina is getting really bad. Today she is in a lot of pain, tachycardic, I think she needs blood, but none available; needs u/s...not hopeful. She needs to get to the states!!!! Someone please help us help her...we keep hitting walls. We have an accepting doc and hospital, but the government is holding us up. Lina has been granted her medical visa. We have brought Lina to the states where she is receiving appropriate care for her cancer. Unfortunately we were a bit too late. |
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Jessica: Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 10:31 PM
March 10th-Took care of Lina three weeks ago. 37 female cervical cancer. Requires treatment unavailable in Haiti. Have been working to get her in the states. The holdup is at the US embassy in DC. I found Lina in the mountains yesterday...septic. Brought back to hospital, no MD available. We did what we could. She is now septic, starving, and dying of cervical cancer. Please help us bring Lina to the states...call the embassy...do whatever you can. Time is crucial for this womans survival! |
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Jessica: Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 10:27 PM
We arrived in the Dominican Republic three days after the earthquake, and navigated our way into Port au Prince. We were fortunate enough to be traveling with a Haitian/American physician...without his guidance this trip would not have been possible. We managed to get a ride to the bus station, a ride from a Haitian and his Dominican friend. He had just arrived from the states, he was traveling to Haiti to pick up his four year old daughter, his wife had been killed when their house collapsed. |
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