20 Oct Canadian Trip to Haiti: Day 3

A United Brethren work group from Canada traveled to Haiti on October 17 to conduct medical clinics in our churches. Joan Sider is sending daily reports for the team. She previously wrote about Monday and Tuesday. Here is her report for Wednesday, October 19.

Dr. Athus joined us today. It is obvious that he has done many clinics. He organized us very effectively, and once again in about 4 hours we were able to see about 115-120 patients. We had three doctors–Dr. Athus, Dr. Germaine, and doctor to be, Ludlande Baptisin. Ludlande is the only one who can’t speak English. The other two speak both Creole and English.

Our interpreters once again helped us a great deal. Evena and Jimmy have been with us each day, and we share them around to the various needed places–but especially with triage.

Each evening we spend time organizing the meds for the next day. This is a great time of camaraderie. We had our debriefing and prayer time once the work was done.

Since many hands make light work, we had time to just visit before heading off to bed.