A visit to Adventist Hospital 

Forty-four year old Elonde Alce arrived at the clinic today with an infected boil on the right side of her neck and an huge infection in her left breast. Our nurses said she needed to see a doctor and so Jean-Elie and I brought her to Adventist Hospital, the hospital that received the Xray machine donated by Fijifilm to Stamford Hospital.

This is a private hospital in Carrefour. Most of our patients cannot even afford the nominal fee at Adventist Hospital. We went anyway and brought some money to pay for the woman's care.


There, however, we found they were still in emergency relief mode and not charging. Elonde saw Elizabeth and Rhonda, American nurses from California, and then a French doctor. We brought her home with ibuprophen and a prescription to put hot compresses on the boil and put an alcohol soaked pad on the sore breast.


Below are more photos of the clinic scene. It was filled to the gills with tents for the refuges as well as tents set up as examining rooms.