Today, I got more information on the clinic. Talking with Dr. Gordon, I learned the Chilean doctors had been evacuated and two want to come back to continue working at the clinic. Currently there are no medical personnel at the clinic and all injured people at the clinic had been taken to the hospital by the MINUSTAH troops. Sister Luz Marina, the nun at the clinic who was also working as a nurse, was taken to the Dominican Republic after having chest pains. She is being tested now for heart problems, but it's very unlikely that she will return. It sounds like there will be another sister taking her place, Sr. Patricia, who is an administrator and will be organizing the clinic very well. I have heard wonderful things about her and cannot wait to start working with her.
There is a group going to Haiti this Sunday, flying into the Port-au-Prince airport, which should be open on Thursday to commercial flights. I'll be working with Dr. Gordon to organize another group shortly after he returns on the 31st.
The clinic is still standing, some minor damage, but we're unsure of exactly how bad. Everyone's safe and no one was injured in the earthquake. A crate was sent from the states full of medical supplies and food and has made it to the compound, so they are distributing it to the Haitians.
This is all the news I have for now, and I'll update it again when I know more.
19 January 2010
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