Jean-Elie Millien reports that the first 1/2 of Team 3 reached the Clinic in Carrefour this afternoon. Dr. Dave Walker and nurses Vic Tolentino, Susan Elles and Karen Joseph, all from Yale-New Haven Hospital, traveled via a Haitian Consulate flight and arrived in PaP at 1.45 p.m. Luc & Dawn picked them up at the airport.
The second part of Team 3 stages at St. John's in Stamford on Friday at 4.30 p.m. and then heads to JFK for their JetBlue flight to Santa Domingo. Team 3 will now include a Haitian doctor, Vladimyr Jean, a Haitian nurse, Karen Joseph, and two American nurses, Susan Elles and Victor Tolentino. Carolyn Lang will also be on the Team. Mona Millien is returning after some much needed rest and recuperation after experiencing the earthquake last month. We are certainly grateful to these people for serving the Haitian people at our Clinic in Carrefour.
After hours of machinations with Gus about the efficacy of using the bus again, I decided it's the most cost effective way to get our medical supplies, food and people to PaP. This trip, we plan to buy even more food at the DR market. I told Carolyn Lang, a volunteer who is working on the Health & Wellbeing side of things, to fill the entire undercarriage of the bus with food if at all possible. We find that our food stocks last only about 4 or 5 days so the more we can bring to the Clinic, the better.
Which reminds me to say, if anybody would like to help us sustain our relief and feeding effort, we would be most grateful. We are in this for the long haul and, unlike the international media, hunger doesn't just go away with time. Please send you contributions with "Haiti" on the memo line to:
Old St. Andrew's Church
59 Tariffville Rd.
Bloomfield, CT 06002
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