If anyone knows someone with a plane or who is willing to finance a plane to transport patients from Haiti to the US, let me know. We have several patients who have been granted humanitarian parole for medical reasons to come to the US, and hospitals willing to take them, but we need to get them from here to there.
We are also looking for ways to have supplies flown from Florida to Jacmel.
We had a busy day, we ran two ORs, there are about 30 inpatients, and hundreds of outpatients every day.
But I have a place to sleep, food to eat, a place to take a shower (cold water), and am meeting some wonderful people.
The Haitian people are happy, friendly, stoic and very gracious. They are quite content even in the midst of very difficult circumstances. Many of the people we are seeing now have medical issues, not necessarily related to the earthquake, but we are able to take care of them, whereas the opportunities for that have been limited in the past. We are also now seeing some of the longer term issues from the quake-wounds not healing, fractures that need further attention, things that got put aside because they weren't life threatening.
I am grateful for all of the support from so many people.