notes: Market Day in Ducis, Sud Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:25 AM From: "Mustard Seed" <mustardseedmissions @ gmail.com> To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com In the SUD, northwest of Les Cayes, there is a regular market day each Tuesday in Ducis. It's easily located on Google earth (W73 52'58.02, N18 13'51.52). It becomes a madhouse that you can't even walk through because there are so many people there from many miles away in the mountains. This would be an ideal place to capture people for education and the need is GREAT! (Read below). On January 10, 11 and 12 we went up to Caiman (further west and north) and to Platon (further north and west) to provide cholera education. We trained over 20 community leaders that represented 13 different communes; over 150 people were in the audience as we trained the leaders over 3 days. NO ONE had gotten to them with any information at all. They had not seen any of the cholera posters, nor seen or heard any of the cholera information. There were vodou practitioners among our audience as well as people from the evangelical church where we were teaching and the local Roman Catholic church. We went to great lengths to try to dispel the various rumors that have cropped up about cholera. All of the information was eagerly received; the people are hungry for information. We passed out ORS, showed them how to make home-made sewom oral and made some batches so people could even taste it. We left each trained leader with 10 posters and about 125 double-sided kolera handouts (we down-sized the five page handout that was posted here) to go back to their villages and share what they'd learned. Each leader left with a plastic bound teaching folder that they could use again and again. We were thanked over and over again. We didn't run into any resistance because we were blans; we taught, but had a Haitian translator translating everything. We're also known to many of the local people there. This is so much worth doing!! We'll be returning in a week to do mobile medical clinics, but first we'll do more education at each site. ---------------------------------------- --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Mustard Seed wrote: From: Mustard Seed Subject: Re: Cholera treatment stuff urgently needed for a clinic in Pestel,Department Grande Anse To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:29 AM I talked to judy last night. She's leaving for Pestel this morning. We were in Caiman yesterday where there reports of cholera but we were told the old woman was on her way to the CTC in Leprete. Caiman (Kayiman). N 18 15' 26.97 W 73 56' 50.49. We trained over 100 people there yesterday including 10 leaders who were given thick packets of handouts to take back to their communities and teach. They are really hungry for info and have gotten none. We are further up in the mountains at Platon and there is no reported or observed kolera here. We're doing teaching here for two days and expect many people will come out of the woodwork once they learn we are here. Platon. N 18 16'21.61 W 73 57'49.83. From the Sud, Jan Davis Paul & Jan Davis Mustard Seed Missions, Inc. Sent via my Blackberry --------------------------------------- 12/11/10 Email from Jan Davis MSM runs mobile medical clinics for one week each in Feb., June, and October (gen. 2 days at each site). They are also ready to deploy Jan. 6 pending political situation. The will be bringing educational materials to distribute Do not know if area is recieving any educational training presently Nearest hospital is Les Cays - 3 hrs away by vehicle Very remote area- some people walk 5 hours to see them when they hold clinic They typically see 800 pts. in the week long clinic-every 4 months They bring Culligan water to the clinics. The sites rely on mountain water sources (springs, rivers) and /or roof-collection cisterns (Doti, Platon) No systematic purification is in place Supply pick up point would be Les Cayes HELICOPTER GPS: Lat. 18 16'22.74" N. Long: 73 57'51.00" W. This landing is at school yard in Platon and is at easterly end of plateau servicing communities to west towards Peak Macaya. (Platon is a 2 hour truck ride, through a river and an hour hike up the moutain with donkeys northwest of Les Cayes. Pastor Saurel can arrange donkeys) As of 12/11/10 no cholera in these communities, however Pastor Saurel reports cases in Chantal and Fond Palmiste which are nearby. -------------------------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever. -> Flag this message Re: CTC GRID STATUS CHECK Friday, June 10, 2011 1:15 PM From: "MSM" <mustardseedmissions @ gmail.com> To: "haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com" <haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com> Mustard Seed just finished mobile medical clinics in Torbeck, Jebwan west of Chantal, and Dubreuille along River L'Acul north of Ducis. We work out of Les Cayes and were quite hampered by flooding. We saw one possible case of cholera, a 10 year old girl, who had already been to the general hospital. Our docs thought it was more likely typhoid. Other than that we saw none and heard about none. We continue to do training and pass out Kolera handouts. MSPP has been passing out meds for filariosis throughout the whole area. Saw some malaria as we expected to. Jan Davis On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:54 AM, James Wilson <iceaxe5 @ gmail.com> wrote: Hi Folks, Quick spot check- are the CTCs handling the patient demand at this point? Are we seeing lower mortality compared to the initial wave? Seeing some traffic on rural mountainous areas seeing issues- what is everyone seeing at this point? Cheers, Jim --------------------------------- Market Day in Ducis, Sud Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:25 AM From: "Mustard Seed" <mustardseedmissions @ gmail.com> To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com In the SUD, northwest of Les Cayes, there is a regular market day each Tuesday in Ducis. It's easily located on Google earth (W73 52'58.02, N18 13'51.52). It becomes a madhouse that you can't even walk through because there are so many people there from many miles away in the mountains. This would be an ideal place to capture people for education and the need is GREAT! (Read below). On January 10, 11 and 12 we went up to Caiman (further west and north) and to Platon (further north and west) to provide cholera education. We trained over 20 community leaders that represented 13 different communes; over 150 people were in the audience as we trained the leaders over 3 days. NO ONE had gotten to them with any information at all. They had not seen any of the cholera posters, nor seen or heard any of the cholera information. There were vodou practitioners among our audience as well as people from the evangelical church where we were teaching and the local Roman Catholic church. We went to great lengths to try to dispel the various rumors that have cropped up about cholera. All of the information was eagerly received; the people are hungry for information. We passed out ORS, showed them how to make home-made sewom oral and made some batches so people could even taste it. We left each trained leader with 10 posters and about 125 double-sided kolera handouts (we down-sized the five page handout that was posted here) to go back to their villages and share what they'd learned. Each leader left with a plastic bound teaching folder that they could use again and again. We were thanked over and over again. We didn't run into any resistance because we were blans; we taught, but had a Haitian translator translating everything. We're also known to many of the local people there. This is so much worth doing!! We'll be returning in a week to do mobile medical clinics, but first we'll do more education at each site. ---------------------------------------- --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Mustard Seed wrote: From: Mustard Seed Subject: Re: Cholera treatment stuff urgently needed for a clinic in Pestel,Department Grande Anse To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:29 AM I talked to judy last night. She's leaving for Pestel this morning. We were in Caiman yesterday where there reports of cholera but we were told the old woman was on her way to the CTC in Leprete. Caiman (Kayiman). N 18 15' 26.97 W 73 56' 50.49. We trained over 100 people there yesterday including 10 leaders who were given thick packets of handouts to take back to their communities and teach. They are really hungry for info and have gotten none. We are further up in the mountains at Platon and there is no reported or observed kolera here. We're doing teaching here for two days and expect many people will come out of the woodwork once they learn we are here. Platon. N 18 16'21.61 W 73 57'49.83. From the Sud, Jan Davis Paul & Jan Davis Mustard Seed Missions, Inc. Sent via my Blackberry --------------------------------------- 12/11/10 Email from Jan Davis MSM runs mobile medical clinics for one week each in Feb., June, and October (gen. 2 days at each site). They are also ready to deploy Jan. 6 pending political situation. The will be bringing educational materials to distribute Do not know if area is recieving any educational training presently Nearest hospital is Les Cays - 3 hrs away by vehicle Very remote area- some people walk 5 hours to see them when they hold clinic They typically see 800 pts. in the week long clinic-every 4 months They bring Culligan water to the clinics. The sites rely on mountain water sources (springs, rivers) and /or roof-collection cisterns (Doti, Platon) No systematic purification is in place Supply pick up point would be Les Cayes HELICOPTER GPS: Lat. 18 16'22.74" N. Long: 73 57'51.00" W. This landing is at school yard in Platon and is at easterly end of plateau servicing communities to west towards Peak Macaya. (Platon is a 2 hour truck ride, through a river and an hour hike up the moutain with donkeys northwest of Les Cayes. Pastor Saurel can arrange donkeys) As of 12/11/10 no cholera in these communities, however Pastor Saurel reports cases in Chantal and Fond Palmiste which are nearby. -------------------------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever.

notes: --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Mustard Seed wrote: From: Mustard Seed Subject: Re: Cholera treatment stuff urgently needed for a clinic in Pestel,Department Grande Anse To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:29 AM I talked to judy last night. She's leaving for Pestel this morning. We were in Caiman yesterday where there reports of cholera but we were told the old woman was on her way to the CTC in Leprete. Caiman (Kayiman). N 18 15' 26.97 W 73 56' 50.49. We trained over 100 people there yesterday including 10 leaders who were given thick packets of handouts to take back to their communities and teach. They are really hungry for info and have gotten none. We are further up in the mountains at Platon and there is no reported or observed kolera here. We're doing teaching here for two days and expect many people will come out of the woodwork once they learn we are here. Platon. N 18 16'21.61 W 73 57'49.83. From the Sud, Jan Davis Paul & Jan Davis Mustard Seed Missions, Inc. Sent via my Blackberry --------------------------------------- 12/11/10 Email from Jan Davis MSM runs mobile medical clinics for one week each in Feb., June, and October (gen. 2 days at each site). They are also ready to deploy Jan. 6 pending political situation. The will be bringing educational materials to distribute Do not know if area is recieving any educational training presently Nearest hospital is Les Cays - 3 hrs away by vehicle Very remote area- some people walk 5 hours to see them when they hold clinic They typically see 800 pts. in the week long clinic-every 4 months They bring Culligan water to the clinics. The sites rely on mountain water sources (springs, rivers) and /or roof-collection cisterns (Doti, Platon) No systematic purification is in place Supply pick up point would be Les Cayes HELICOPTER GPS: Lat. 18 16'22.74" N. Long: 73 57'51.00" W. This landing is at school yard in Platon and is at easterly end of plateau servicing communities to west towards Peak Macaya. (Platon is a 2 hour truck ride, through a river and an hour hike up the moutain with donkeys northwest of Les Cayes. Pastor Saurel can arrange donkeys) As of 12/11/10 no cholera in these communities, however Pastor Saurel reports cases in Chantal and Fond Palmiste which are nearby. -------------------------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever. -> Market Day in Ducis, Sud Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:25 AM From: "Mustard Seed" <mustardseedmissions @ gmail.com> To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com In the SUD, northwest of Les Cayes, there is a regular market day each Tuesday in Ducis. It's easily located on Google earth (W73 52'58.02, N18 13'51.52). It becomes a madhouse that you can't even walk through because there are so many people there from many miles away in the mountains. This would be an ideal place to capture people for education and the need is GREAT! (Read below). On January 10, 11 and 12 we went up to Caiman (further west and north) and to Platon (further north and west) to provide cholera education. We trained over 20 community leaders that represented 13 different communes; over 150 people were in the audience as we trained the leaders over 3 days. NO ONE had gotten to them with any information at all. They had not seen any of the cholera posters, nor seen or heard any of the cholera information. There were vodou practitioners among our audience as well as people from the evangelical church where we were teaching and the local Roman Catholic church. We went to great lengths to try to dispel the various rumors that have cropped up about cholera. All of the information was eagerly received; the people are hungry for information. We passed out ORS, showed them how to make home-made sewom oral and made some batches so people could even taste it. We left each trained leader with 10 posters and about 125 double-sided kolera handouts (we down-sized the five page handout that was posted here) to go back to their villages and share what they'd learned. Each leader left with a plastic bound teaching folder that they could use again and again. We were thanked over and over again. We didn't run into any resistance because we were blans; we taught, but had a Haitian translator translating everything. We're also known to many of the local people there. This is so much worth doing!! We'll be returning in a week to do mobile medical clinics, but first we'll do more education at each site. ---------------------------------------- --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Mustard Seed wrote: From: Mustard Seed Subject: Re: Cholera treatment stuff urgently needed for a clinic in Pestel,Department Grande Anse To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:29 AM I talked to judy last night. She's leaving for Pestel this morning. We were in Caiman yesterday where there reports of cholera but we were told the old woman was on her way to the CTC in Leprete. Caiman (Kayiman). N 18 15' 26.97 W 73 56' 50.49. We trained over 100 people there yesterday including 10 leaders who were given thick packets of handouts to take back to their communities and teach. They are really hungry for info and have gotten none. We are further up in the mountains at Platon and there is no reported or observed kolera here. We're doing teaching here for two days and expect many people will come out of the woodwork once they learn we are here. Platon. N 18 16'21.61 W 73 57'49.83. From the Sud, Jan Davis Paul & Jan Davis Mustard Seed Missions, Inc. Sent via my Blackberry --------------------------------------- 12/11/10 Email from Jan Davis MSM runs mobile medical clinics for one week each in Feb., June, and October (gen. 2 days at each site). They are also ready to deploy Jan. 6 pending political situation. The will be bringing educational materials to distribute Do not know if area is recieving any educational training presently Nearest hospital is Les Cays - 3 hrs away by vehicle Very remote area- some people walk 5 hours to see them when they hold clinic They typically see 800 pts. in the week long clinic-every 4 months They bring Culligan water to the clinics. The sites rely on mountain water sources (springs, rivers) and /or roof-collection cisterns (Doti, Platon) No systematic purification is in place Supply pick up point would be Les Cayes HELICOPTER GPS: Lat. 18 16'22.74" N. Long: 73 57'51.00" W. This landing is at school yard in Platon and is at easterly end of plateau servicing communities to west towards Peak Macaya. (Platon is a 2 hour truck ride, through a river and an hour hike up the moutain with donkeys northwest of Les Cayes. Pastor Saurel can arrange donkeys) As of 12/11/10 no cholera in these communities, however Pastor Saurel reports cases in Chantal and Fond Palmiste which are nearby. -------------------------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever.
mission: Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies. -> Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies.

notes: 12/11/10 Email from Jan Davis MSM runs mobile medical clinics for one week each in Feb., June, and October (gen. 2 days at each site). They are also ready to deploy Jan. 6 pending political situation. The will be bringing educational materials to distribute Do not know if area is recieving any educational training presently Nearest hospital is Les Cays - 3 hrs away by vehicle Very remote area- some people walk 5 hours to see them when they hold clinic They typically see 800 pts. in the week long clinic-every 4 months They bring Culligan water to the clinics. The sites rely on mountain water sources (springs, rivers) and /or roof-collection cisterns (Doti, Platon) No systematic purification is in place Supply pick up point would be Les Cayes HELICOPTER GPS: Lat. 18 16'22.74" N. Long: 73 57'51.00" W. This landing is at school yard in Platon and is at easterly end of plateau servicing communities to west towards Peak Macaya. (Platon is a 2 hour truck ride, through a river and an hour hike up the moutain with donkeys northwest of Les Cayes. Pastor Saurel can arrange donkeys) As of 12/11/10 no cholera in these communities, however Pastor Saurel reports cases in Chantal and Fond Palmiste which are nearby. -------------------------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever. ------------------------------- HAITI ON STEROIDS January 23rd, 2010 When in Haiti we are used to needing to be flexible and we’re used to waiting. We call it “Haiti time”. You can’t be here if you aren’t flexible. Well, we have moved into a new dimension. (Check out the clock we found hanging in the meds room at the hospital). Haiti is operating on an hour by hour basis and hampered by the tremendous absence of communication. Current operating conditions generally: » Damaged unsafe buildings » Closed airports; planes needing to land illegally » Small relief planes running out of fuel and needing to lay by at nearby islands until they can refuel » Phones working intermittently but primarily not all. » No ability to manage med teams and dispatch from a central location or even from a central knowledge base. As a result, we are now being replaced by a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc who will arrive here before noon. We woke up this morning had a briefing from Jay, then walked over to the hospital. Then we waited for an hour for the doc who had the key to the pharmacy to open it up so we could get at all of the bags we’d locked up there last night. Paul, Wayne and Jay began to sort our bags. Jay opened up the suitcase he’d retrieved from CSL, and which was supposed to have most of the pain meds in it, to find that there was one small partial bottle of pain meds there. We don’t know if they were stolen or if they were entered into the pharmacy stock at CSL. Matt and Ann began seeing patients with Smiley and Jasmin as translators. About one hour into it we were beginning to feeling like were about to get on a roll. Then we got a phone call from the med director in Cayes that he was sending up a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc and we were needed back at CSL for primary care. It’s a good swap; they need surgeons up here. I met a German physical therapist who lives outside of Cayes. She came up here with a patient and has stayed to help. We’ve begun talking about a prosthetics clinic. The pediatric ward has 8 children. Two little girls have had their right legs amputated. 4 others are in traction. Each child has one or two parenys staying with them. The family supplies the bedding and is responsible for laundering it, and for feeding their child. We were told that a local church has taken on the task of feeding the patients at the hospital. Up until 2 days ago they’d had no food. We brought our ‘bagay’ bag with us and I was able to hand out a stuffed animal and rubber bouncy ball to each child. That brought out some really welcome smiles from each child even one who was screaming in fear of the IV they were trying to place. Ann and Matt continued to work while we waited for the new team to arrive . In the men’s ward they held x-rays up to a light bulb to see broken hips (in traction now), broken legs (complete break, slid past the break — I’m sure there’s a medical term) — and still unset after 8 days. Parents are trying to toilet their children who are laying in bed in traction. The kids are in obvious pain whenever they are moved. I’ve been wandering in and out and these are just some of what I can see. There’s a lot of need for pain management. 12:15 pm – The team that was supposed to be here at 9:00 is still not here. Now we’ve been told they’ll be here in 3 hours. Flexibility is getting thin. Back to the guesthouse to have lunch and pack up. 1:00 pm – Jay just found out the Haitian doctor quit this morning bc he hasn’t been paid in 10 months. Jay founs his house and we paid him to return at least for the next 2 weeks. He is really a very competent and respected surgeon and they really need him here. Most of the difficulty is because patients are unable to pay their hospital bill. For example, a middle-aged woman has been laying in the “ER” here for 4 days. She had an amputation but it was bad and needs to be re-done. She finally got seen here today for an x-ray which cost 1650 Haitian dollars (210 USD). For a poor woman from an earthquake zone that’s impossible to pay. The good thing is, if we are able to help pay some of the staff, then people such as her will continue to receive treatment. Our med team spent the morning doing IV’s. This afternoon they’re moving on to changing dressings. KOURAJ! There is a woman here in the hospital who has incredible courage. She was trapped in a hole under the rubble in PAP with her left arm crushed under a slab of cement. She used a piece of stone to amputate her own arm, clawing and ripping at it until she was free and then she climbed up out of the hole in the rubble. More Courage: A 22 year old boy rode on the back of a motorbike all the way from PAP to Les Cayes with a snapped femur. That’s a five hour ride in a car over bumpy roads. He’s in the hospital at Bonne Fin now. At 3 pm the truck from MEBSH arrived and we headed back to Cayes. There are more stories to come, but they’ll be posted tomorrow. We’ve had a long day. Posted in Sak pase (What's happening) | No Comments » Six year old amputee January 23rd, 2010 At Bonne Fin hospital this morning we gave toys to the kids in the pediatrics unit. 8 kids, 2 amputees. Others scraped up badly and broken limbs. Now a change in plans. Moving back down to Cayes to Centre de Sante Lumiere because a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc are arriving in a couple hours. Haiti is operating on an hour by hour schedule. Read blog later for more info. Prepping for Bonne Fin January 23rd, 2010 Paul, Matt, Ann and Wally are just about to take off from Nassau. They have to go through customs at Cap Haitien. That’s where the bottleneck was last Saturday when the blans in Cayes were trying to evacuate. Hopefully, they have worked out a better system for clearing planes more quickly. If all goes well they should be here by noon but I don’t really expect that to happen. In the meantime we are packing for Bonne Fin and finally after many days of trying to work out the logistics we’ve determined that we will have lodging and food there. We are concerned about having enough good drugs, sutures, dressings etc. Jay and I went down to the refugee center. The field is now full of tents with a family in each one, thanks to tents that were donated via Rob and MIA. They are feeding between 150 and 250 people per day. Four Haitian women are standing over large kettles cooking rice or maize with spices and peppers in it. The number is uncertain because some people come only for a day or two and then pass along. For some families this is just a half-way stop. We also went to the ‘carrefour’ (main rotary) where Benog and Pizo are passing out the sacks of food. We saw the piles of bananas, fritters and water that 4 guys are packing into sacks. We also saw some people who received them sit sown in front of the police station and begin eating appreciatively. I took photos but they were under a tree and hard to see. Nevertheless, I’ll send one and see if Laurel can work her magic. Benog and Piso have set up there operation on the front porch of the police station. You can’t get much better security than that. However…a policeman followed them back here late yesterday afternoon and ended up leaving with $400. Somewhere in the middle we ended up paying for 20 people to ride a bus to Jeremie. The math doesn’t work out, but there wasn’t much we could do about it. We never got a real clear story of what happened, but the cop got his money! Pizo is having a ball. He’s a 50 year old deaf mute. He’s very intelligent and kind. When we asked him if he wanted a job, he jumped at the chance and he’s doing a fine job. MSM and MIA are developing a good reputation locally for the work we’re doing together. Jay runs a much larger mission operation and is really taking the lead and we’re working very well together. Many people here know what we’re doing, so unfortunately that notoreity means we are potential targets. It will be good to get out of Dodge for a few days. 5:15 pm. The team (Matt, Ann, Wayne) landed at about 2:30. We hustled home, well we actually slogged along on the BUV because we had 10 duffle bags, 3 suitcases and 8 people on one BUV. We were really overloaded but we made it home. After a quick clean-up we ate a great meal of chicken, roce and beans, and pikliz. Now we are sitting here waiting for our ride to Bonne Fin. Darkness falls like a curtain at 6:00 and we would definitely like to get there by then. Time is getting short… Jay and I found some very disturbing cracks in our house. The floor in the living room is buckling and we began to think we needed to comb the house over more closely. When we did, it wasn’t good news. We’ve asked Amos ti begin looking for a new house for us. It will take a long time now after the earthquake. -> --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Mustard Seed wrote: From: Mustard Seed Subject: Re: Cholera treatment stuff urgently needed for a clinic in Pestel,Department Grande Anse To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:29 AM I talked to judy last night. She's leaving for Pestel this morning. We were in Caiman yesterday where there reports of cholera but we were told the old woman was on her way to the CTC in Leprete. Caiman (Kayiman). N 18 15' 26.97 W 73 56' 50.49. We trained over 100 people there yesterday including 10 leaders who were given thick packets of handouts to take back to their communities and teach. They are really hungry for info and have gotten none. We are further up in the mountains at Platon and there is no reported or observed kolera here. We're doing teaching here for two days and expect many people will come out of the woodwork once they learn we are here. Platon. N 18 16'21.61 W 73 57'49.83. From the Sud, Jan Davis Paul & Jan Davis Mustard Seed Missions, Inc. Sent via my Blackberry --------------------------------------- 12/11/10 Email from Jan Davis MSM runs mobile medical clinics for one week each in Feb., June, and October (gen. 2 days at each site). They are also ready to deploy Jan. 6 pending political situation. The will be bringing educational materials to distribute Do not know if area is recieving any educational training presently Nearest hospital is Les Cays - 3 hrs away by vehicle Very remote area- some people walk 5 hours to see them when they hold clinic They typically see 800 pts. in the week long clinic-every 4 months They bring Culligan water to the clinics. The sites rely on mountain water sources (springs, rivers) and /or roof-collection cisterns (Doti, Platon) No systematic purification is in place Supply pick up point would be Les Cayes HELICOPTER GPS: Lat. 18 16'22.74" N. Long: 73 57'51.00" W. This landing is at school yard in Platon and is at easterly end of plateau servicing communities to west towards Peak Macaya. (Platon is a 2 hour truck ride, through a river and an hour hike up the moutain with donkeys northwest of Les Cayes. Pastor Saurel can arrange donkeys) As of 12/11/10 no cholera in these communities, however Pastor Saurel reports cases in Chantal and Fond Palmiste which are nearby. -------------------------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever.
mission: Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies. -> Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies.

parish: -> Les Cayes
town: Les Cayes -> Platon, Leprete, Nan Doti
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address: -> Platon GPS: LAT: 18 16'22.74"N Long: 73 57'51.00"W Nan Doti 18 16'55.25" N 72 42'43.84" W. Leprete 18 16'55.35"N 73 42'43.84"W
notes: FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever. ------------------------------- HAITI ON STEROIDS January 23rd, 2010 When in Haiti we are used to needing to be flexible and we’re used to waiting. We call it “Haiti time”. You can’t be here if you aren’t flexible. Well, we have moved into a new dimension. (Check out the clock we found hanging in the meds room at the hospital). Haiti is operating on an hour by hour basis and hampered by the tremendous absence of communication. Current operating conditions generally: » Damaged unsafe buildings » Closed airports; planes needing to land illegally » Small relief planes running out of fuel and needing to lay by at nearby islands until they can refuel » Phones working intermittently but primarily not all. » No ability to manage med teams and dispatch from a central location or even from a central knowledge base. As a result, we are now being replaced by a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc who will arrive here before noon. We woke up this morning had a briefing from Jay, then walked over to the hospital. Then we waited for an hour for the doc who had the key to the pharmacy to open it up so we could get at all of the bags we’d locked up there last night. Paul, Wayne and Jay began to sort our bags. Jay opened up the suitcase he’d retrieved from CSL, and which was supposed to have most of the pain meds in it, to find that there was one small partial bottle of pain meds there. We don’t know if they were stolen or if they were entered into the pharmacy stock at CSL. Matt and Ann began seeing patients with Smiley and Jasmin as translators. About one hour into it we were beginning to feeling like were about to get on a roll. Then we got a phone call from the med director in Cayes that he was sending up a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc and we were needed back at CSL for primary care. It’s a good swap; they need surgeons up here. I met a German physical therapist who lives outside of Cayes. She came up here with a patient and has stayed to help. We’ve begun talking about a prosthetics clinic. The pediatric ward has 8 children. Two little girls have had their right legs amputated. 4 others are in traction. Each child has one or two parenys staying with them. The family supplies the bedding and is responsible for laundering it, and for feeding their child. We were told that a local church has taken on the task of feeding the patients at the hospital. Up until 2 days ago they’d had no food. We brought our ‘bagay’ bag with us and I was able to hand out a stuffed animal and rubber bouncy ball to each child. That brought out some really welcome smiles from each child even one who was screaming in fear of the IV they were trying to place. Ann and Matt continued to work while we waited for the new team to arrive . In the men’s ward they held x-rays up to a light bulb to see broken hips (in traction now), broken legs (complete break, slid past the break — I’m sure there’s a medical term) — and still unset after 8 days. Parents are trying to toilet their children who are laying in bed in traction. The kids are in obvious pain whenever they are moved. I’ve been wandering in and out and these are just some of what I can see. There’s a lot of need for pain management. 12:15 pm – The team that was supposed to be here at 9:00 is still not here. Now we’ve been told they’ll be here in 3 hours. Flexibility is getting thin. Back to the guesthouse to have lunch and pack up. 1:00 pm – Jay just found out the Haitian doctor quit this morning bc he hasn’t been paid in 10 months. Jay founs his house and we paid him to return at least for the next 2 weeks. He is really a very competent and respected surgeon and they really need him here. Most of the difficulty is because patients are unable to pay their hospital bill. For example, a middle-aged woman has been laying in the “ER” here for 4 days. She had an amputation but it was bad and needs to be re-done. She finally got seen here today for an x-ray which cost 1650 Haitian dollars (210 USD). For a poor woman from an earthquake zone that’s impossible to pay. The good thing is, if we are able to help pay some of the staff, then people such as her will continue to receive treatment. Our med team spent the morning doing IV’s. This afternoon they’re moving on to changing dressings. KOURAJ! There is a woman here in the hospital who has incredible courage. She was trapped in a hole under the rubble in PAP with her left arm crushed under a slab of cement. She used a piece of stone to amputate her own arm, clawing and ripping at it until she was free and then she climbed up out of the hole in the rubble. More Courage: A 22 year old boy rode on the back of a motorbike all the way from PAP to Les Cayes with a snapped femur. That’s a five hour ride in a car over bumpy roads. He’s in the hospital at Bonne Fin now. At 3 pm the truck from MEBSH arrived and we headed back to Cayes. There are more stories to come, but they’ll be posted tomorrow. We’ve had a long day. Posted in Sak pase (What's happening) | No Comments » Six year old amputee January 23rd, 2010 At Bonne Fin hospital this morning we gave toys to the kids in the pediatrics unit. 8 kids, 2 amputees. Others scraped up badly and broken limbs. Now a change in plans. Moving back down to Cayes to Centre de Sante Lumiere because a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc are arriving in a couple hours. Haiti is operating on an hour by hour schedule. Read blog later for more info. Prepping for Bonne Fin January 23rd, 2010 Paul, Matt, Ann and Wally are just about to take off from Nassau. They have to go through customs at Cap Haitien. That’s where the bottleneck was last Saturday when the blans in Cayes were trying to evacuate. Hopefully, they have worked out a better system for clearing planes more quickly. If all goes well they should be here by noon but I don’t really expect that to happen. In the meantime we are packing for Bonne Fin and finally after many days of trying to work out the logistics we’ve determined that we will have lodging and food there. We are concerned about having enough good drugs, sutures, dressings etc. Jay and I went down to the refugee center. The field is now full of tents with a family in each one, thanks to tents that were donated via Rob and MIA. They are feeding between 150 and 250 people per day. Four Haitian women are standing over large kettles cooking rice or maize with spices and peppers in it. The number is uncertain because some people come only for a day or two and then pass along. For some families this is just a half-way stop. We also went to the ‘carrefour’ (main rotary) where Benog and Pizo are passing out the sacks of food. We saw the piles of bananas, fritters and water that 4 guys are packing into sacks. We also saw some people who received them sit sown in front of the police station and begin eating appreciatively. I took photos but they were under a tree and hard to see. Nevertheless, I’ll send one and see if Laurel can work her magic. Benog and Piso have set up there operation on the front porch of the police station. You can’t get much better security than that. However…a policeman followed them back here late yesterday afternoon and ended up leaving with $400. Somewhere in the middle we ended up paying for 20 people to ride a bus to Jeremie. The math doesn’t work out, but there wasn’t much we could do about it. We never got a real clear story of what happened, but the cop got his money! Pizo is having a ball. He’s a 50 year old deaf mute. He’s very intelligent and kind. When we asked him if he wanted a job, he jumped at the chance and he’s doing a fine job. MSM and MIA are developing a good reputation locally for the work we’re doing together. Jay runs a much larger mission operation and is really taking the lead and we’re working very well together. Many people here know what we’re doing, so unfortunately that notoreity means we are potential targets. It will be good to get out of Dodge for a few days. 5:15 pm. The team (Matt, Ann, Wayne) landed at about 2:30. We hustled home, well we actually slogged along on the BUV because we had 10 duffle bags, 3 suitcases and 8 people on one BUV. We were really overloaded but we made it home. After a quick clean-up we ate a great meal of chicken, roce and beans, and pikliz. Now we are sitting here waiting for our ride to Bonne Fin. Darkness falls like a curtain at 6:00 and we would definitely like to get there by then. Time is getting short… Jay and I found some very disturbing cracks in our house. The floor in the living room is buckling and we began to think we needed to comb the house over more closely. When we did, it wasn’t good news. We’ve asked Amos ti begin looking for a new house for us. It will take a long time now after the earthquake. -> 12/11/10 Email from Jan Davis MSM runs mobile medical clinics for one week each in Feb., June, and October (gen. 2 days at each site). They are also ready to deploy Jan. 6 pending political situation. The will be bringing educational materials to distribute Do not know if area is recieving any educational training presently Nearest hospital is Les Cays - 3 hrs away by vehicle Very remote area- some people walk 5 hours to see them when they hold clinic They typically see 800 pts. in the week long clinic-every 4 months They bring Culligan water to the clinics. The sites rely on mountain water sources (springs, rivers) and /or roof-collection cisterns (Doti, Platon) No systematic purification is in place Supply pick up point would be Les Cayes HELICOPTER GPS: Lat. 18 16'22.74" N. Long: 73 57'51.00" W. This landing is at school yard in Platon and is at easterly end of plateau servicing communities to west towards Peak Macaya. (Platon is a 2 hour truck ride, through a river and an hour hike up the moutain with donkeys northwest of Les Cayes. Pastor Saurel can arrange donkeys) As of 12/11/10 no cholera in these communities, however Pastor Saurel reports cases in Chantal and Fond Palmiste which are nearby. -------------------------------------------------- FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever. ------------------------------- HAITI ON STEROIDS January 23rd, 2010 When in Haiti we are used to needing to be flexible and we’re used to waiting. We call it “Haiti time”. You can’t be here if you aren’t flexible. Well, we have moved into a new dimension. (Check out the clock we found hanging in the meds room at the hospital). Haiti is operating on an hour by hour basis and hampered by the tremendous absence of communication. Current operating conditions generally: » Damaged unsafe buildings » Closed airports; planes needing to land illegally » Small relief planes running out of fuel and needing to lay by at nearby islands until they can refuel » Phones working intermittently but primarily not all. » No ability to manage med teams and dispatch from a central location or even from a central knowledge base. As a result, we are now being replaced by a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc who will arrive here before noon. We woke up this morning had a briefing from Jay, then walked over to the hospital. Then we waited for an hour for the doc who had the key to the pharmacy to open it up so we could get at all of the bags we’d locked up there last night. Paul, Wayne and Jay began to sort our bags. Jay opened up the suitcase he’d retrieved from CSL, and which was supposed to have most of the pain meds in it, to find that there was one small partial bottle of pain meds there. We don’t know if they were stolen or if they were entered into the pharmacy stock at CSL. Matt and Ann began seeing patients with Smiley and Jasmin as translators. About one hour into it we were beginning to feeling like were about to get on a roll. Then we got a phone call from the med director in Cayes that he was sending up a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc and we were needed back at CSL for primary care. It’s a good swap; they need surgeons up here. I met a German physical therapist who lives outside of Cayes. She came up here with a patient and has stayed to help. We’ve begun talking about a prosthetics clinic. The pediatric ward has 8 children. Two little girls have had their right legs amputated. 4 others are in traction. Each child has one or two parenys staying with them. The family supplies the bedding and is responsible for laundering it, and for feeding their child. We were told that a local church has taken on the task of feeding the patients at the hospital. Up until 2 days ago they’d had no food. We brought our ‘bagay’ bag with us and I was able to hand out a stuffed animal and rubber bouncy ball to each child. That brought out some really welcome smiles from each child even one who was screaming in fear of the IV they were trying to place. Ann and Matt continued to work while we waited for the new team to arrive . In the men’s ward they held x-rays up to a light bulb to see broken hips (in traction now), broken legs (complete break, slid past the break — I’m sure there’s a medical term) — and still unset after 8 days. Parents are trying to toilet their children who are laying in bed in traction. The kids are in obvious pain whenever they are moved. I’ve been wandering in and out and these are just some of what I can see. There’s a lot of need for pain management. 12:15 pm – The team that was supposed to be here at 9:00 is still not here. Now we’ve been told they’ll be here in 3 hours. Flexibility is getting thin. Back to the guesthouse to have lunch and pack up. 1:00 pm – Jay just found out the Haitian doctor quit this morning bc he hasn’t been paid in 10 months. Jay founs his house and we paid him to return at least for the next 2 weeks. He is really a very competent and respected surgeon and they really need him here. Most of the difficulty is because patients are unable to pay their hospital bill. For example, a middle-aged woman has been laying in the “ER” here for 4 days. She had an amputation but it was bad and needs to be re-done. She finally got seen here today for an x-ray which cost 1650 Haitian dollars (210 USD). For a poor woman from an earthquake zone that’s impossible to pay. The good thing is, if we are able to help pay some of the staff, then people such as her will continue to receive treatment. Our med team spent the morning doing IV’s. This afternoon they’re moving on to changing dressings. KOURAJ! There is a woman here in the hospital who has incredible courage. She was trapped in a hole under the rubble in PAP with her left arm crushed under a slab of cement. She used a piece of stone to amputate her own arm, clawing and ripping at it until she was free and then she climbed up out of the hole in the rubble. More Courage: A 22 year old boy rode on the back of a motorbike all the way from PAP to Les Cayes with a snapped femur. That’s a five hour ride in a car over bumpy roads. He’s in the hospital at Bonne Fin now. At 3 pm the truck from MEBSH arrived and we headed back to Cayes. There are more stories to come, but they’ll be posted tomorrow. We’ve had a long day. Posted in Sak pase (What's happening) | No Comments » Six year old amputee January 23rd, 2010 At Bonne Fin hospital this morning we gave toys to the kids in the pediatrics unit. 8 kids, 2 amputees. Others scraped up badly and broken limbs. Now a change in plans. Moving back down to Cayes to Centre de Sante Lumiere because a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc are arriving in a couple hours. Haiti is operating on an hour by hour schedule. Read blog later for more info. Prepping for Bonne Fin January 23rd, 2010 Paul, Matt, Ann and Wally are just about to take off from Nassau. They have to go through customs at Cap Haitien. That’s where the bottleneck was last Saturday when the blans in Cayes were trying to evacuate. Hopefully, they have worked out a better system for clearing planes more quickly. If all goes well they should be here by noon but I don’t really expect that to happen. In the meantime we are packing for Bonne Fin and finally after many days of trying to work out the logistics we’ve determined that we will have lodging and food there. We are concerned about having enough good drugs, sutures, dressings etc. Jay and I went down to the refugee center. The field is now full of tents with a family in each one, thanks to tents that were donated via Rob and MIA. They are feeding between 150 and 250 people per day. Four Haitian women are standing over large kettles cooking rice or maize with spices and peppers in it. The number is uncertain because some people come only for a day or two and then pass along. For some families this is just a half-way stop. We also went to the ‘carrefour’ (main rotary) where Benog and Pizo are passing out the sacks of food. We saw the piles of bananas, fritters and water that 4 guys are packing into sacks. We also saw some people who received them sit sown in front of the police station and begin eating appreciatively. I took photos but they were under a tree and hard to see. Nevertheless, I’ll send one and see if Laurel can work her magic. Benog and Piso have set up there operation on the front porch of the police station. You can’t get much better security than that. However…a policeman followed them back here late yesterday afternoon and ended up leaving with $400. Somewhere in the middle we ended up paying for 20 people to ride a bus to Jeremie. The math doesn’t work out, but there wasn’t much we could do about it. We never got a real clear story of what happened, but the cop got his money! Pizo is having a ball. He’s a 50 year old deaf mute. He’s very intelligent and kind. When we asked him if he wanted a job, he jumped at the chance and he’s doing a fine job. MSM and MIA are developing a good reputation locally for the work we’re doing together. Jay runs a much larger mission operation and is really taking the lead and we’re working very well together. Many people here know what we’re doing, so unfortunately that notoreity means we are potential targets. It will be good to get out of Dodge for a few days. 5:15 pm. The team (Matt, Ann, Wayne) landed at about 2:30. We hustled home, well we actually slogged along on the BUV because we had 10 duffle bags, 3 suitcases and 8 people on one BUV. We were really overloaded but we made it home. After a quick clean-up we ate a great meal of chicken, roce and beans, and pikliz. Now we are sitting here waiting for our ride to Bonne Fin. Darkness falls like a curtain at 6:00 and we would definitely like to get there by then. Time is getting short… Jay and I found some very disturbing cracks in our house. The floor in the living room is buckling and we began to think we needed to comb the house over more closely. When we did, it wasn’t good news. We’ve asked Amos ti begin looking for a new house for us. It will take a long time now after the earthquake.
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organization: Missionary Team - First Responders - Medical -> Medical Clinic Mobile
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mission: Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies. -> Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies.

mission: Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies. -> Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies.

notes: HAITI ON STEROIDS January 23rd, 2010 When in Haiti we are used to needing to be flexible and we’re used to waiting. We call it “Haiti time”. You can’t be here if you aren’t flexible. Well, we have moved into a new dimension. (Check out the clock we found hanging in the meds room at the hospital). Haiti is operating on an hour by hour basis and hampered by the tremendous absence of communication. Current operating conditions generally: » Damaged unsafe buildings » Closed airports; planes needing to land illegally » Small relief planes running out of fuel and needing to lay by at nearby islands until they can refuel » Phones working intermittently but primarily not all. » No ability to manage med teams and dispatch from a central location or even from a central knowledge base. As a result, we are now being replaced by a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc who will arrive here before noon. We woke up this morning had a briefing from Jay, then walked over to the hospital. Then we waited for an hour for the doc who had the key to the pharmacy to open it up so we could get at all of the bags we’d locked up there last night. Paul, Wayne and Jay began to sort our bags. Jay opened up the suitcase he’d retrieved from CSL, and which was supposed to have most of the pain meds in it, to find that there was one small partial bottle of pain meds there. We don’t know if they were stolen or if they were entered into the pharmacy stock at CSL. Matt and Ann began seeing patients with Smiley and Jasmin as translators. About one hour into it we were beginning to feeling like were about to get on a roll. Then we got a phone call from the med director in Cayes that he was sending up a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc and we were needed back at CSL for primary care. It’s a good swap; they need surgeons up here. I met a German physical therapist who lives outside of Cayes. She came up here with a patient and has stayed to help. We’ve begun talking about a prosthetics clinic. The pediatric ward has 8 children. Two little girls have had their right legs amputated. 4 others are in traction. Each child has one or two parenys staying with them. The family supplies the bedding and is responsible for laundering it, and for feeding their child. We were told that a local church has taken on the task of feeding the patients at the hospital. Up until 2 days ago they’d had no food. We brought our ‘bagay’ bag with us and I was able to hand out a stuffed animal and rubber bouncy ball to each child. That brought out some really welcome smiles from each child even one who was screaming in fear of the IV they were trying to place. Ann and Matt continued to work while we waited for the new team to arrive . In the men’s ward they held x-rays up to a light bulb to see broken hips (in traction now), broken legs (complete break, slid past the break — I’m sure there’s a medical term) — and still unset after 8 days. Parents are trying to toilet their children who are laying in bed in traction. The kids are in obvious pain whenever they are moved. I’ve been wandering in and out and these are just some of what I can see. There’s a lot of need for pain management. 12:15 pm – The team that was supposed to be here at 9:00 is still not here. Now we’ve been told they’ll be here in 3 hours. Flexibility is getting thin. Back to the guesthouse to have lunch and pack up. 1:00 pm – Jay just found out the Haitian doctor quit this morning bc he hasn’t been paid in 10 months. Jay founs his house and we paid him to return at least for the next 2 weeks. He is really a very competent and respected surgeon and they really need him here. Most of the difficulty is because patients are unable to pay their hospital bill. For example, a middle-aged woman has been laying in the “ER” here for 4 days. She had an amputation but it was bad and needs to be re-done. She finally got seen here today for an x-ray which cost 1650 Haitian dollars (210 USD). For a poor woman from an earthquake zone that’s impossible to pay. The good thing is, if we are able to help pay some of the staff, then people such as her will continue to receive treatment. Our med team spent the morning doing IV’s. This afternoon they’re moving on to changing dressings. KOURAJ! There is a woman here in the hospital who has incredible courage. She was trapped in a hole under the rubble in PAP with her left arm crushed under a slab of cement. She used a piece of stone to amputate her own arm, clawing and ripping at it until she was free and then she climbed up out of the hole in the rubble. More Courage: A 22 year old boy rode on the back of a motorbike all the way from PAP to Les Cayes with a snapped femur. That’s a five hour ride in a car over bumpy roads. He’s in the hospital at Bonne Fin now. At 3 pm the truck from MEBSH arrived and we headed back to Cayes. There are more stories to come, but they’ll be posted tomorrow. We’ve had a long day. Posted in Sak pase (What's happening) | No Comments » Six year old amputee January 23rd, 2010 At Bonne Fin hospital this morning we gave toys to the kids in the pediatrics unit. 8 kids, 2 amputees. Others scraped up badly and broken limbs. Now a change in plans. Moving back down to Cayes to Centre de Sante Lumiere because a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc are arriving in a couple hours. Haiti is operating on an hour by hour schedule. Read blog later for more info. Prepping for Bonne Fin January 23rd, 2010 Paul, Matt, Ann and Wally are just about to take off from Nassau. They have to go through customs at Cap Haitien. That’s where the bottleneck was last Saturday when the blans in Cayes were trying to evacuate. Hopefully, they have worked out a better system for clearing planes more quickly. If all goes well they should be here by noon but I don’t really expect that to happen. In the meantime we are packing for Bonne Fin and finally after many days of trying to work out the logistics we’ve determined that we will have lodging and food there. We are concerned about having enough good drugs, sutures, dressings etc. Jay and I went down to the refugee center. The field is now full of tents with a family in each one, thanks to tents that were donated via Rob and MIA. They are feeding between 150 and 250 people per day. Four Haitian women are standing over large kettles cooking rice or maize with spices and peppers in it. The number is uncertain because some people come only for a day or two and then pass along. For some families this is just a half-way stop. We also went to the ‘carrefour’ (main rotary) where Benog and Pizo are passing out the sacks of food. We saw the piles of bananas, fritters and water that 4 guys are packing into sacks. We also saw some people who received them sit sown in front of the police station and begin eating appreciatively. I took photos but they were under a tree and hard to see. Nevertheless, I’ll send one and see if Laurel can work her magic. Benog and Piso have set up there operation on the front porch of the police station. You can’t get much better security than that. However…a policeman followed them back here late yesterday afternoon and ended up leaving with $400. Somewhere in the middle we ended up paying for 20 people to ride a bus to Jeremie. The math doesn’t work out, but there wasn’t much we could do about it. We never got a real clear story of what happened, but the cop got his money! Pizo is having a ball. He’s a 50 year old deaf mute. He’s very intelligent and kind. When we asked him if he wanted a job, he jumped at the chance and he’s doing a fine job. MSM and MIA are developing a good reputation locally for the work we’re doing together. Jay runs a much larger mission operation and is really taking the lead and we’re working very well together. Many people here know what we’re doing, so unfortunately that notoreity means we are potential targets. It will be good to get out of Dodge for a few days. 5:15 pm. The team (Matt, Ann, Wayne) landed at about 2:30. We hustled home, well we actually slogged along on the BUV because we had 10 duffle bags, 3 suitcases and 8 people on one BUV. We were really overloaded but we made it home. After a quick clean-up we ate a great meal of chicken, roce and beans, and pikliz. Now we are sitting here waiting for our ride to Bonne Fin. Darkness falls like a curtain at 6:00 and we would definitely like to get there by then. Time is getting short… Jay and I found some very disturbing cracks in our house. The floor in the living room is buckling and we began to think we needed to comb the house over more closely. When we did, it wasn’t good news. We’ve asked Amos ti begin looking for a new house for us. It will take a long time now after the earthquake. -> FROM THE SITE: Cholera Epidemic – Clean Water Needed October 28th, 2010 The cholera outbreak occurred shortly before Paul and I left Haiti; by the day we departed (Sunday) it had been declared an epidemic. We’re watching the maps and the news regularly, including online listservs, UN updates, etc. to follow this. We have tickets to return in December, and we are not planning to change our plans at this time. Our December trip is all about clean water and Haiti needs it now more than ever. ------------------------------- HAITI ON STEROIDS January 23rd, 2010 When in Haiti we are used to needing to be flexible and we’re used to waiting. We call it “Haiti time”. You can’t be here if you aren’t flexible. Well, we have moved into a new dimension. (Check out the clock we found hanging in the meds room at the hospital). Haiti is operating on an hour by hour basis and hampered by the tremendous absence of communication. Current operating conditions generally: » Damaged unsafe buildings » Closed airports; planes needing to land illegally » Small relief planes running out of fuel and needing to lay by at nearby islands until they can refuel » Phones working intermittently but primarily not all. » No ability to manage med teams and dispatch from a central location or even from a central knowledge base. As a result, we are now being replaced by a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc who will arrive here before noon. We woke up this morning had a briefing from Jay, then walked over to the hospital. Then we waited for an hour for the doc who had the key to the pharmacy to open it up so we could get at all of the bags we’d locked up there last night. Paul, Wayne and Jay began to sort our bags. Jay opened up the suitcase he’d retrieved from CSL, and which was supposed to have most of the pain meds in it, to find that there was one small partial bottle of pain meds there. We don’t know if they were stolen or if they were entered into the pharmacy stock at CSL. Matt and Ann began seeing patients with Smiley and Jasmin as translators. About one hour into it we were beginning to feeling like were about to get on a roll. Then we got a phone call from the med director in Cayes that he was sending up a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc and we were needed back at CSL for primary care. It’s a good swap; they need surgeons up here. I met a German physical therapist who lives outside of Cayes. She came up here with a patient and has stayed to help. We’ve begun talking about a prosthetics clinic. The pediatric ward has 8 children. Two little girls have had their right legs amputated. 4 others are in traction. Each child has one or two parenys staying with them. The family supplies the bedding and is responsible for laundering it, and for feeding their child. We were told that a local church has taken on the task of feeding the patients at the hospital. Up until 2 days ago they’d had no food. We brought our ‘bagay’ bag with us and I was able to hand out a stuffed animal and rubber bouncy ball to each child. That brought out some really welcome smiles from each child even one who was screaming in fear of the IV they were trying to place. Ann and Matt continued to work while we waited for the new team to arrive . In the men’s ward they held x-rays up to a light bulb to see broken hips (in traction now), broken legs (complete break, slid past the break — I’m sure there’s a medical term) — and still unset after 8 days. Parents are trying to toilet their children who are laying in bed in traction. The kids are in obvious pain whenever they are moved. I’ve been wandering in and out and these are just some of what I can see. There’s a lot of need for pain management. 12:15 pm – The team that was supposed to be here at 9:00 is still not here. Now we’ve been told they’ll be here in 3 hours. Flexibility is getting thin. Back to the guesthouse to have lunch and pack up. 1:00 pm – Jay just found out the Haitian doctor quit this morning bc he hasn’t been paid in 10 months. Jay founs his house and we paid him to return at least for the next 2 weeks. He is really a very competent and respected surgeon and they really need him here. Most of the difficulty is because patients are unable to pay their hospital bill. For example, a middle-aged woman has been laying in the “ER” here for 4 days. She had an amputation but it was bad and needs to be re-done. She finally got seen here today for an x-ray which cost 1650 Haitian dollars (210 USD). For a poor woman from an earthquake zone that’s impossible to pay. The good thing is, if we are able to help pay some of the staff, then people such as her will continue to receive treatment. Our med team spent the morning doing IV’s. This afternoon they’re moving on to changing dressings. KOURAJ! There is a woman here in the hospital who has incredible courage. She was trapped in a hole under the rubble in PAP with her left arm crushed under a slab of cement. She used a piece of stone to amputate her own arm, clawing and ripping at it until she was free and then she climbed up out of the hole in the rubble. More Courage: A 22 year old boy rode on the back of a motorbike all the way from PAP to Les Cayes with a snapped femur. That’s a five hour ride in a car over bumpy roads. He’s in the hospital at Bonne Fin now. At 3 pm the truck from MEBSH arrived and we headed back to Cayes. There are more stories to come, but they’ll be posted tomorrow. We’ve had a long day. Posted in Sak pase (What's happening) | No Comments » Six year old amputee January 23rd, 2010 At Bonne Fin hospital this morning we gave toys to the kids in the pediatrics unit. 8 kids, 2 amputees. Others scraped up badly and broken limbs. Now a change in plans. Moving back down to Cayes to Centre de Sante Lumiere because a team of 21 surgeons, anesthesiologists, etc are arriving in a couple hours. Haiti is operating on an hour by hour schedule. Read blog later for more info. Prepping for Bonne Fin January 23rd, 2010 Paul, Matt, Ann and Wally are just about to take off from Nassau. They have to go through customs at Cap Haitien. That’s where the bottleneck was last Saturday when the blans in Cayes were trying to evacuate. Hopefully, they have worked out a better system for clearing planes more quickly. If all goes well they should be here by noon but I don’t really expect that to happen. In the meantime we are packing for Bonne Fin and finally after many days of trying to work out the logistics we’ve determined that we will have lodging and food there. We are concerned about having enough good drugs, sutures, dressings etc. Jay and I went down to the refugee center. The field is now full of tents with a family in each one, thanks to tents that were donated via Rob and MIA. They are feeding between 150 and 250 people per day. Four Haitian women are standing over large kettles cooking rice or maize with spices and peppers in it. The number is uncertain because some people come only for a day or two and then pass along. For some families this is just a half-way stop. We also went to the ‘carrefour’ (main rotary) where Benog and Pizo are passing out the sacks of food. We saw the piles of bananas, fritters and water that 4 guys are packing into sacks. We also saw some people who received them sit sown in front of the police station and begin eating appreciatively. I took photos but they were under a tree and hard to see. Nevertheless, I’ll send one and see if Laurel can work her magic. Benog and Piso have set up there operation on the front porch of the police station. You can’t get much better security than that. However…a policeman followed them back here late yesterday afternoon and ended up leaving with $400. Somewhere in the middle we ended up paying for 20 people to ride a bus to Jeremie. The math doesn’t work out, but there wasn’t much we could do about it. We never got a real clear story of what happened, but the cop got his money! Pizo is having a ball. He’s a 50 year old deaf mute. He’s very intelligent and kind. When we asked him if he wanted a job, he jumped at the chance and he’s doing a fine job. MSM and MIA are developing a good reputation locally for the work we’re doing together. Jay runs a much larger mission operation and is really taking the lead and we’re working very well together. Many people here know what we’re doing, so unfortunately that notoreity means we are potential targets. It will be good to get out of Dodge for a few days. 5:15 pm. The team (Matt, Ann, Wayne) landed at about 2:30. We hustled home, well we actually slogged along on the BUV because we had 10 duffle bags, 3 suitcases and 8 people on one BUV. We were really overloaded but we made it home. After a quick clean-up we ate a great meal of chicken, roce and beans, and pikliz. Now we are sitting here waiting for our ride to Bonne Fin. Darkness falls like a curtain at 6:00 and we would definitely like to get there by then. Time is getting short… Jay and I found some very disturbing cracks in our house. The floor in the living room is buckling and we began to think we needed to comb the house over more closely. When we did, it wasn’t good news. We’ve asked Amos ti begin looking for a new house for us. It will take a long time now after the earthquake.

website: http://www.mustardseedmissions.net/ -> http://www.mustardseedmissions.org/

parish: Sud ->
region: Haiti, Caribbean -> Sud
mission: Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies. -> Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies.

parish: -> Sud
mission: Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies. -> Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies.

website: -> http://www.mustardseedmissions.net/
mission: -> Mustard Seed Missions is a Christ-following mission seeking to serve the poor in Haiti. Partnering with Haitian followers of Christ, we jointly work to address the health and living conditions of the Haitian people, leading to self-sustaining improvements. MSM visits Haiti regularly to hold medical clinics in remote rural villages for people who have very limited access to medical care. We work to provide medical care and improve community health, environmental conditions, and education. All of these actions are used to build relationships with Haitians who are actively engaged in this work. In these activities, we attempt to mentor concepts of good stewardship, integrity, leadership, and self-sufficiency wherever possible. MSM is also working with the American University of the Caribbean in Les Cayes, where we have taught seminars and short courses, assisted students with tuition, and given Bible studies.