The entire Team is now in Bonne Fin and plan to stay there for the remainder of the trip. There were already 60 patients waiting to be seen there. They were able to evaluate 10 of them today. Of those 10, 5 are scheduled for surgery tomorrow and they were able to do their first case today. Given the high rate of surgeries per patient evaluated, they anticipate being very busy for the remainder of their time there. The wounds they are observing are patients who have already had 1 amputation but the amputation sight has become severely infected and they are needing to debride the wounds and do further surgery on the wounds.
A little more specific information on what they saw at Kings Garden Hospital yesterday was a Team of 20 physicians and nurses who were keeping up with the patient volume there. They observed many tent/sheet cities as they traveled.
Everyone is in good health. They have heard reports that the hospital at Cape Haitian is receiving over 500 new patients a day. Cape Haitian is north of Port au Prince.
They didn't report about whether they have felt any tremors or the damage in Bonne Finn.
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It must be so rewarding to be able to use your God-given skills during such a tragic time. So glad they are all there safely and praying that everything goes well.
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