Before leaving Hopital Adventiste from their first volunteer stint, Terry and Jeanie Dietrich felt God’s call to return, not for a week or two, but for a year, to give continuity of healthcare to the people there. Since that time, they have been preparing for a year long commitment in medical service to the hospital there and have finally arrived.
In the following image, Terry can be seen on the left operating on a burn contracture patient with volunteer Duncan Miles on a prior trip to Haiti.
The following note was written by Jeanie yesterday...read the complete post here.
We arrived today and the city seemed cleaner at least in some of the places. The market place was still quite dirty with rotten food, and dirty clothes on the ground in front of the market place. But they are starting to clean up the rubble and trash. You even see trucks being loaded with the rubble of the concrete. We were put into a room in the new wing of the hospital down where Scott and Brook had their rooms. We have two hospital beds pushed together with mattress on them. We are glad for the hospital beds. Our room has a small bathroom and two oscillating fans above our bed. A sink is attached to one of the walls of the bedroom. Our rooms back door over looks the laundry area and maintenance area.
They have had about 5 cholera patients come through the ER each day. Other hospitals in the area have had many more then this. They are thinking that the peak of the cholera epidemic here in Port au Prince will be mid December.
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