Photo by John Carroll
Cite Soleil
Any one know Katherine's diagnosis? She came to the pediatric clinic in Soleil two days ago.
This is a trick question...so don't feel bad.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
What is her Diagnosis?
Photo by John Carroll
Cite Soleil
Any one know Katherine's diagnosis? She came to the pediatric clinic in Soleil two days ago.
This is a trick question...so don't feel bad.
Malaria
Photo by John Carroll
February 18, 2010
Malaria is caused by a parasite that infects the human red blood cell.
About 1 billion people in the world are infected with malaria each year and it kills 1-3 million of them.
Malaria is preventable and curable. And most malaria occurs in the developing world. Haiti has the most dangerous type of malaria...Plasmodium falciparum.
This 59 year old man came to clinic yesterday. He works as a security guard for a school.
He was moaning in "total body discomfort" and his skin was very hot. He had been sick for 5 days.
I could not find a source of infection and due to his symptoms I gave him a stat dose of choloroquine, started an IV, and admitted him to the hospital.
His malaria prep came back very positive for malaria. The ring shaped parasite inside his red blood cells were easy to see under the microscope.
This man has a ways to go, but by 9 PM last night his fever had dropped, and he was sitting on the edge of his bed conversing.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Cite Soleil
Photo by John Carroll
February 16, 2011
This lady lost her husband and her father in the earthquake last year.
The Sullivan Family
Sister Dulcimar of the Daughters of Charity in Cite Soleil thanks the Sullivan family in Illinois for the large check from the Sullivan auction.
These funds will be used by Sister Dulcimar for the malnutrition program in Cite Soleil.
The children enter the malnutrition program emaciated and leave months later playful and much happier.
Thank you, Rita et al!!
Haitian Children Starving to Death
Photo by John Carroll
Cite Soleil
February 16, 2011
Can you believe that one mile from this beautiful site children are literally starving to death?
This photo was shot on the northern edge of Cite Soleil. Today.
It is the "worst slum in the western hemisphere", but it doesn't need to be.
I examine these lethargic, sick kids each day. Their moms are alone in this crowded slum and unable to provide much more than some white rice and red beans once per day.
Their living conditions are beyond terrible post earthquake and were terrible pre earthquake.
And 10 billion dollars of international aid has been pledged to Haiti in the last 12 months.
We will have some answering to do some day.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Dusousa
Photo by John Carroll
Cite Soleil
Valentine's Day, 2011
This beautiful little boy's name is Dusousa.
He is 19 months old and weighs 15 pounds. He is in the malnutrition clinic in the back part of Cite Soleil.
Dusousa also has another problem...he is blind.
Well, he can see the light from my otoscope and will follow it. But that is it.
He has dense cataracts in both eyes. Children with congenital rubella can develop cataracts.
The rest of his exam is good. No heart murmurs and he cruises around the chair holding onto his mother's dress. He doesn't wander away from her.
He and his mother live in a Project here in Soleil.
Dusousa has no father and mother has no money of course. She can't even feed him adequately let alone pay for cataract surgery.
However, Dusousa is lucky, in a way. He is no longer starving but receiving two hot meals each day Monday through Friday.
But in several months he will be discharged from the malnutrition program. And he will still have his cataracts. He will still be essentially blind.
What do we do?
Saturday, February 12, 2011
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