Port Au Prince Team - Monday @ Kings Hospital

Traveling through the tent villages across road that would make any dentist salivate at the jarred fillings is typical now in our third day at Port au Prince.  

The medical team of Dr. Stephan Fromm, Sylvia and Emily left with Dr. Morquette will arrive thirty minutes earlier than the rest of our team, because it needs to begin prepping for six scheduled operations.  Much as in Africa, in Haiti flexibility is a must as things move more slowly and change often.  

By 9:30 we are given instructions to begin painting the hospital.  Before the day is out, a lot of white paint will coat stairwells, walls, clothes, faces, hair and floors.  Some students join our group and are very helpful and delightful.

By 10:00 the medical team has been joined by Scot who is instructed to put on scrubs and shoot photography and video of the operation.  The scheduled has been reduced to one hernia operation which is delayed for need of the wrench to changed valves on the anesthesia tanks.  Finally, one is located but the valve can't be removed.  Another valve is located and the operation begins.  It is the first day for the nurse from Haiti.  The operation goes well and three more patients show up and are operated on.  It is Haiti, plans are merely suggestions.

The day ends with a rain shower, a wonderful dinner of beef & okra, a conversation with Dr. Morquette on the need for churches to help transform Haiti into a country that is self sufficient.  Our team convenes for discussion and devotions.  Helping the people of Haiti is not small task but on all of our hearts.

We are ready for tomorrow.