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Urgent appeal
A&E Medical staff and equipment and medication are urgently required for hospital in the North of Haiti to respond to the migration of people up from Port au Prince.
Please email your details to martin.slocombe@virgin.net, including the following information:
Full Name
Medical Field / Specialist in
Trauma Experience
Dates available
Your nearest airport
Editor's note: At the foot of this page is an excellent clip from the BBC which gives an indication of the conditions faced by medical staff in Haiti. This clip was published by the BBC on 30 January 2010.
Urgent appeal
A&E Medical staff and equipment and medication are urgently required for hospital in the North of Haiti to respond to the migration of people up from Port au Prince.
Please email your details to martin.slocombe@virgin.net, including the following information:
Full Name
Medical Field / Specialist in
Trauma Experience
Dates available
Your nearest airport
Editor's note: At the foot of this page is an excellent clip from the BBC which gives an indication of the conditions faced by medical staff in Haiti. This clip was published by the BBC on 30 January 2010.
14 January 2010
Dear everyone,
We’d like to thank you for all your love, support and prayers in the last few days! They have been greatly appreciated by us and all the other staff here on the ground in Haiti. Firstly, Grace’s Op is tomorrow (Friday 15/1/2010), so please pray for her and the surgical team!
On Tuesday night when the earthquake struck, Cap-Haitian where the Haiti Hospital Appeal’s main work is based felt the tremors. Despite some reports of damage in the North, the main pain has been caused by the tragic waiting game many are now playing. The tragic news rippled across Haiti, and for the whole of Wednesday left our city in dazed bewilderment, as people silently went about their lives, stunned by this incredible disaster, weeping for the victims. The sad reality is there are probably few families across the country who won’t have known a victim. Many of our staff have now been waiting for days to hear whether their friends and family in Port au Prince are OK or not. One of our dear friends has 4 young children living there, but has had no news. The communication channels are still down. Today I witnessed many people trying to pile onto buses to go to the capital to find loved ones. However, this task won’t be easy. As many of you will have heard, some estimations go as high as 100,000 people when counting the potential death toll, and that doesn’t even include casualties. In my understanding bodies lay piled in the streets, people having to pass by each body to desperately find their loved ones. Hospitals, schools, universities, government offices including the Presidents Palace, several UN bases, churches and the like have all been destroyed. The city has become a living hell, which will send this already desperate country into further turmoil. Most normally live here as if a disaster had happened on the eve of every day anyway, and this set back will cause long lasting social and economic damage far beyond the coverage in your papers and televisions.
Today the Haiti Hospital Appeal has had a number of emergency meetings with key government officials in the North, including the Governments Northern Delegate in charge of the Northern emergency response, and The Minister of Health in Northern Haiti. All have expressed their deep gratitude at the Haiti Hospital Appeals swift response, and desire to collaborate. Important partnerships have been made, and we are now formally recognised by the government as an aid response source. We have established a three step plan to help Haiti, and ensure more lives aren’t lost and less lives suffer; now and way into the future. Here’s where any support from you will go:
1. Provide aid to Port au Prince. Tomorrow I’ll be going with Paul Hill in our ambulance on our first aid convoy providing food, clothing, medication, and the like. On the way back we will most likely carry some victims seeking medical support in the North, as the hospitals in Port au Prince are over flowing. This work will continue as funds become available through alternative vehicles. We will possibly arrange outreach clinics with foreign medical teams to this region later.
2. Provide urgent support for the many refugees who will head to Cap-Haitian where we are based. We are officially collaborating with The North Haiti Health Ministry, and will be opening up our clinic if required as a 24 hour hospital. This will include opening one of our ‘nearly’ finished hospital wards, as an emergency hospital over flow facility for the UN and Government, and us privately. Our ambulance has been recognised as a key part of this work, and will be used throughout transporting between the government hospital, us, and other clinics. Our Children’s Home is also prepared for a potential influx of orphans, and/or children who have been left disabled who will require our respite programme. As well as offering free health support, we will also be offering food distribution to any refugees in the North, and potentially host families in partnership with The Baptist Convention.
3. Completion of our urgent needed wards. It is frustrating our hospital is not yet complete to fully help deal with this devastation. However, it is a blessing it’s now being opened, even in its unfinished state. The devastation caused by this disaster has paralysed the government, and I have no doubt will place even greater strain on Haiti’s already desperate health system. It is urgent our response is not only immediate, but looks to supporting this nation long after the tragedy has left our TV screens and newspapers. 1 in 5 children already die before the age of 5 in Haiti, a disaster in itself. The completion of these wards will provide urgently needed support for the government in the next few years, and for many after. It will take years for Haiti to recover from this, and I am certain health care will be one of the key areas affected.
Needless to say, Haiti needs the support of people like you more than ever now. You’ve seen the images, so I don’t need to say how important this is. What I would say is please give generously, and encourage friends, family, companies who you may work with or for, churches and schools to do the same. We need your support urgently. To donate please go directly to our web-site: www.haitihospitalappeal.org. You can check out the blog page for up to date information and our three step strategy. Please draw alongside us at this urgent time. If you’d like any more info or feel you can help please contact us via: info@haitihospitalappeal.org
Our love and thanks in advance to you all,
Carwyn
http://www.haitihospitalappeal.org/
14 January 2010
Dear everyone,
We’d like to thank you for all your love, support and prayers in the last few days! They have been greatly appreciated by us and all the other staff here on the ground in Haiti. Firstly, Grace’s Op is tomorrow (Friday 15/1/2010), so please pray for her and the surgical team!
On Tuesday night when the earthquake struck, Cap-Haitian where the Haiti Hospital Appeal’s main work is based felt the tremors. Despite some reports of damage in the North, the main pain has been caused by the tragic waiting game many are now playing. The tragic news rippled across Haiti, and for the whole of Wednesday left our city in dazed bewilderment, as people silently went about their lives, stunned by this incredible disaster, weeping for the victims. The sad reality is there are probably few families across the country who won’t have known a victim. Many of our staff have now been waiting for days to hear whether their friends and family in Port au Prince are OK or not. One of our dear friends has 4 young children living there, but has had no news. The communication channels are still down. Today I witnessed many people trying to pile onto buses to go to the capital to find loved ones. However, this task won’t be easy. As many of you will have heard, some estimations go as high as 100,000 people when counting the potential death toll, and that doesn’t even include casualties. In my understanding bodies lay piled in the streets, people having to pass by each body to desperately find their loved ones. Hospitals, schools, universities, government offices including the Presidents Palace, several UN bases, churches and the like have all been destroyed. The city has become a living hell, which will send this already desperate country into further turmoil. Most normally live here as if a disaster had happened on the eve of every day anyway, and this set back will cause long lasting social and economic damage far beyond the coverage in your papers and televisions.
Today the Haiti Hospital Appeal has had a number of emergency meetings with key government officials in the North, including the Governments Northern Delegate in charge of the Northern emergency response, and The Minister of Health in Northern Haiti. All have expressed their deep gratitude at the Haiti Hospital Appeals swift response, and desire to collaborate. Important partnerships have been made, and we are now formally recognised by the government as an aid response source. We have established a three step plan to help Haiti, and ensure more lives aren’t lost and less lives suffer; now and way into the future. Here’s where any support from you will go:
1. Provide aid to Port au Prince. Tomorrow I’ll be going with Paul Hill in our ambulance on our first aid convoy providing food, clothing, medication, and the like. On the way back we will most likely carry some victims seeking medical support in the North, as the hospitals in Port au Prince are over flowing. This work will continue as funds become available through alternative vehicles. We will possibly arrange outreach clinics with foreign medical teams to this region later.
2. Provide urgent support for the many refugees who will head to Cap-Haitian where we are based. We are officially collaborating with The North Haiti Health Ministry, and will be opening up our clinic if required as a 24 hour hospital. This will include opening one of our ‘nearly’ finished hospital wards, as an emergency hospital over flow facility for the UN and Government, and us privately. Our ambulance has been recognised as a key part of this work, and will be used throughout transporting between the government hospital, us, and other clinics. Our Children’s Home is also prepared for a potential influx of orphans, and/or children who have been left disabled who will require our respite programme. As well as offering free health support, we will also be offering food distribution to any refugees in the North, and potentially host families in partnership with The Baptist Convention.
3. Completion of our urgent needed wards. It is frustrating our hospital is not yet complete to fully help deal with this devastation. However, it is a blessing it’s now being opened, even in its unfinished state. The devastation caused by this disaster has paralysed the government, and I have no doubt will place even greater strain on Haiti’s already desperate health system. It is urgent our response is not only immediate, but looks to supporting this nation long after the tragedy has left our TV screens and newspapers. 1 in 5 children already die before the age of 5 in Haiti, a disaster in itself. The completion of these wards will provide urgently needed support for the government in the next few years, and for many after. It will take years for Haiti to recover from this, and I am certain health care will be one of the key areas affected.
Needless to say, Haiti needs the support of people like you more than ever now. You’ve seen the images, so I don’t need to say how important this is. What I would say is please give generously, and encourage friends, family, companies who you may work with or for, churches and schools to do the same. We need your support urgently. To donate please go directly to our web-site: www.haitihospitalappeal.org. You can check out the blog page for up to date information and our three step strategy. Please draw alongside us at this urgent time. If you’d like any more info or feel you can help please contact us via: info@haitihospitalappeal.org
Our love and thanks in advance to you all,
Carwyn
http://www.haitihospitalappeal.org/
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