I returned two days ago from a 9-day disaster response trip to Haiti. While in Port-au-Prince, I took video and wrote what I was seeing and doing. Here is a sample:
“All is well here. At same hospital as yesterday. A lot slower. We are bringing in 15 post-op patients who will stay here until well. Two of us will remain here overnight.
Still seeing fractures, dislocations, and wounds. I think the Haitians are beginning to grieve, now that the shock is over and life is returning to somewhere closer to normal. They are telling me about their relatives who died.
We had been in an air-conditioned bus, but today we rode in a caged flatbed truck. We could smell rotting bodies as we drove through town.”
If you would like to view the rest of my reporting on our Haiti medical relief trip, visit www.brianinhaiti.blogspot.com.
