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Medical Relief - Haiti 2010

Jenna Stutzman and Stephanie Peterson visit the warehouse in SanJuan, Puerto Rico to pick up suitcases of supplies and medicine before heading to Port Au Prince, June, 2010.
This is how you fit a huge group of people in a small and only occasionally-airconditioned van.
Stephanie takes blood pressures for the doctors and brings them the medicines they ask for.
Many babies just need food and rehydration salts.
Children gather outside the mobile clinics and beg for water.
Wounds that are not so serious now can turn very serious after a few days. It is important that the wounds are cleaned and the patients given antibiotics.
Carrie Beth mixes anti-parasitic medications for the children in the make shift pharmacies.
Port Au Prince is shattered...still.
The mobile clinics are crazy. With hundreds of people in line, sometimes a thousand, they have to be handled with care. Sometimes we would return to the same place, other times it would be deemed too risky to go back. The need is too great. We only have so many people and certain equipment. The level of disparity in some cases was beyond comprehension.
Stocking the surgery room of the new hospital!!
One little guy near the hospital just curiously roaming around.
What better to do late at night than practice IV's on each other with head lamps?
This was a common scene in Haiti. It was literally impossible to stay hydrated and when you got weak or your blood pressure dropped, look out for the "picky-picky". Here comes the IV and nap time.
Stephanie volunteers herself as an example to learn about IV's and fluids.
This is how you watch The World Cup in Haiti. You plug a TV into an electrical cord, run it up a tree to other lines that go to a generator, apply a bottle of OFF! 25% deet, pull up a lawn chair and scream like crazy for Brazil!
A stop on the coast to breathe because the air conditioning in the van broke, again.
Carrie works in another pharmacy, this time in a partially collapsed building- no roof but some walls are left.
Stephanie cleans and bandages wounds in the hospital.
Even simple cuts will be serious after infection so cleaning is so important. Although painkillers have to be reserved for the worst cases, like surgeries, the people don't hate you for the pain you put them through. They smile, thank you for the help, and walk away.
Twin boys enjoy a comfortable hospital bed while their mother gets an abscess from a poorly placed injection cut open.
Everything is done right out in the open. This is the operating table with the doctor, two assistants and a young translator.
Carrie and Stephanie in their pharmacy area and ready for anything!
Our group of wonderful people who volunteered with Iniciativas De Paz to work in the beautiful mess that is Haiti. June 2010.

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