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Conscience International Medical Teams report from Port-au-Prince

Boy receiving medical treatment.

Tent cities filled with hungry people…dead bodies stacked in hospital courtyards…makeshift clinics in large tents crowded with beds…people suffering without anesthetic…horrible disfiguring wounds that have not been treated….dirty bandages…flies…little children too fatigued and too hopeless to cry…limbs swollen with gangrene…arms and legs being amputated…doctors and nurses working around the clock…some being treated for dehydration and exhaustion themselves….people groaning, wincing, or screaming in pain…a human tide of misery….

Conscience International team members, led by CI President Dr, James E. Jennings, are now making return trips to Haiti in order to perform surgery under emergency conditions and to take and dispense much needed medical supplies. You can help support these efforts by donating to support Conscience International’s Haiti Relief efforts.

Dr. Michael Hogan examing a patient at the UN Field Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Conscience International’s latest emergency relief medical team to Haiti (its third since January) arrived there on Monday, Feb. 15 and is currently working in a field clinic near Port-au-Prince where they are assisting in the care of 500 patients along with nine Doctors and seven nurses, feeding, dispensing medicine,  fitting people for eye glasses, caring for patients, etc.

The need is still very great. They report having some rice and beans– for both patients and for themselves–  but very little available water.  It is 85-degrees there currently and they are operating under primitive conditions.

CI medical and coordination teams have been working in field hospitals in Haiti since the first weeks following the January earthquake.  More than $52,000 worth of medical supplies and life-saving medicines for delivery to the CLINIQUE MEDICALE DE CHRISTIANVILLE, near Port au Prince, as well as to serve other areas, have already been delivered and more is needed.

To help support Conscience International’s work in Haiti, click on our HELP HAITI site.

To read more from Conscience International’s most recent medical teams to Haiti, check the links below:

Georgians working to organize doctors; Chattanooga Times Free Press; Chattannooga, Tennessee

Local surgeon fights to save lives in Haiti; Forsyth News; Cumming, Georgia

Humanitarians lend a hand in Haiti; Gainesville Times; Gainesville, Georgia