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“…I am not able to explain what I have witnessed here.”–Michael Lear, RMF Haiti

January 25, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti, Helping Children, Providing Medical Support by Michael Lear | Comments closed

Michael Lear:
I sit here four days after arriving to Jimaní and am not able to explain what I have witnessed here.  Perhaps I’m tired. Perhaps it is the staggering amounts of amputations, stories of being trapped, crushed, losing everything, family, friends or homes – seeing so many orphaned children lying scared and alone in body casts – oblivious to what awaits them back at home in Port-au-Prince – utter destruction, chaos and collapse.

While all of this has left me silent, nothing leaves me speechless more than the contemplation of how these people will recover – so many doctors, nurses, medical support staff are needed for the next months, probably years to come to ensure their recovery.
Funding is desperately needed to establish long term healthcare solutions, provide psychological support, housing and of course food and water.

Please help us to sustain our effort to aid the people of Haiti.

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“You are my family now”–Stancia to Michael Lear, RMF Haiti

January 25, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti, Helping Children, Initiatives, Rebuilding Communities by Michael Lear | Comments closed

haiti4Michael Lear, Haiti, Jan 25th 2010

Upon returning from Port-au-Prince, Michael became friends with one of the many victims that experienced tragedies beyond measure: “I went to help with the relocated patients placed on the lawn in front of the post-op ward.   It was there that I met Stancia.  Stancia lost everything – her whole family, her husband, her children and her house.
She lay alone in the Dominican Republic with crushed legs, not knowing how to start over.  Her first words to me are – “I am dead.  I have lost everything, my family, my husband and children and my house.  It is just me and God……..and you.  You are my family now.”

Please help us to provide Stancia with hope and the support to start her life over.

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RMF Haiti UPDATE: Earth Quake Relief, Port-au-Prince

January 25, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti, Helping Children, Providing Medical Support, Rebuilding Communities by Michael Lear | Comments closed

haiti1Earth Quake Relief Port-au-Prince Haiti

January 25, 2010
Michael Lear and Dr. Martina Fuchs

Real Medicine deployed to the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, January 20, and began performing assessments on the Jimaní border hospitals, the Good Samaritan and the Hospital Melenciano, which have been receiving patients from Haiti since last week.

Both facilities have been overloaded as more patients arrive and the demand for post-operative care increases. Patients with pins sticking out of flesh, with amputations, and many children in body casts line every hallway and ground space.haiti2

All of the patients at both hospitals had arrived via ambulance (if lucky enough), or piled in the back of flat bed trucks in numbers as high as 30.  The now congested 30-mile route between Port-au-Prince and Jimaní is taking up to an exhausting three to five hours.

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Real Medicine’s team is headed to Jimaní, the border town most overwhelmed by severely injured Haitians seeking medical help.

January 19, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Donate, Haiti, Helping Children, Initiatives, Providing Medical Support, Rebuilding Communities, Thank You by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

Real Medicine’s team is headed to Jimaní on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

We have identified two hospitals our doctors and nurses are able to work out of. Jimaní is the border town most overwhelmed by severely injured Haitians seeking medical help. Our contacts on the ground are reporting that severely injured patients are arriving in containers, often 30-40 persons in one container. Many of them requiring amputations.

We are accepting more doctors and nurses, especially trauma/ortho surgeons/nurses and anesthesiologists.

We will continue to report from the ground. Thank you for your ongoing support making this possible.

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USAID Haiti Earthquake Fact Sheet 4

January 16, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

USAID Haiti Earthquake Fact Sheet 4

http://media.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/photo/haiti-earthquake-peoplejpg-d659963c2ae6ab12_large.jpgWASHINGTON, Jan. 16

KEY DEVELOPMENTS

  • U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah visited Haiti on January 16 to personally convey support to the people of Haiti and meet with Haitian President Rene Preval, other Government of Haiti (GoH) officials, and the U.S. government (USG) field relief team.
  • As of 1500 hours local time on January 16, U.S. urban search and rescue (USAR) teams—working in concert with other international teams—had rescued 22 individuals from collapsed buildings, according to the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART).
  • On January 15 and 16, two additional USAR teams arrived in Haiti—from Virginia Beach and New York, respectively—bringing the total number of U.S. teams to seven and the total number of U.S. USAR members to 506.
  • Early on January 16, three USAID/OFDA water treatment units arrived in Haiti on DoD C-130 aircraft.  The units have a combined capacity for providing 300,000 liters of safe drinking water each day.  USAID/OFDA is arranging a second flight carrying an additional water treatment unit, as well as kitchen and hygiene sets for distribution to affected families.
  • On January 16, USAID/OFDA announced the provision of $550,000 to USAID/Dominican Republic (USAID/DR) for the procurement and delivery of safe drinking water to earthquake-affected populations.
  • As of January 16, two of five U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs) had commenced field hospital operations.  A third DMAT team, a Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT), and an International Medical Surgical Response Team (IMSuRT) also arrived on January 15.
  • The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has authorized $20 million in overseas humanitarian and disaster assistance appropriations in support of the Haiti earthquake relief effort.
  • On January 15, the USS CARL VINSON delivered more than 30 pallets of relief supplies for transport by helicopter to distribution sites and affected areas.
  • Approximately 5,000 U.S. troops, afloat and onshore, are currently supporting U.S. relief operations in Haiti.

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U.S. Navy to Help Build Temporary Piers, Assess Port Damage

January 16, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

U.S. Navy to Help Build Temporary Piers, Assess Port Damage

By Associated Press

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The Navy is going to try to get the wrecked seaport in Haiti’s capital up and running.

A Navy commander says the salvage ship Grasp is en route to Port-au-Prince with divers and underwater construction personnel to assess the damage to piers and other port facilities.

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Aid reaches Haiti by land via Dominican Republic

January 16, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

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Aid expected to reach Haiti by land via Dominican Republic

By WSJ Staff

Aid began pouring into Haiti Friday not only by plane, but by truck across the border from the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican border town of Jimani bustled as David Gazashvili, CARE’s head of emergency response, and a team of CARE staff crossed in the early morning on their way to Port-au-Prince.
A couple dozen trucks lined up on the side of the road, about a kilometer outside the border on the Dominican side. Pickups were filled with young men in orange-colored “Defensa Civil” t-shirts. Nearby four more trucks carried huge water tanks, some of which bore the words “Agua Gratis” – or free water.

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BBC Report: US sending 10,000 troops to earthquake-hit Haiti

January 15, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

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From BBC.com

Up to 10,000 US troops will be on the ground or off the coast of Haiti by Monday to help deal with the earthquake aid effort, US defence officials say.

Tuesday’s earthquake has left as many as 50,000-100,000 people dead.

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RMF in Haiti: Emergency Operations Center Report #1

January 15, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

HAITI QUAKE 2Real Medicine Foundation: Haiti Earthquake Relief:
Michael Lear

Real Medicine Foundation is presently assembling a logistic and medical team to deploy as early as Sunday evening to aid in the efforts on the ground in Haiti.
The recent report from the Pan American Health Organization/WHO highlights the main challenges facing the massive humanitarian effort underway.

Please DONATE to help us help Haiti

Emergency Operations Center Situation Report #1
Haiti Earthquake

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Haiti quake damages pile up

January 13, 2010 in Disaster Relief, General, Haiti by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

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Looks like the Presidential Palace and the UN peacekeeping HQ are among the more prominent buildings lost in today’s quake in Haiti. Obviously the least of the issues.

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