February 28, 2011
Photo by John Carroll
I wonder if the registered voters in this tent city are going to vote for Madame Manigat, Michael, or....nobody?
Monday, February 28, 2011
Madame Manigat
February 28, 2011
Photo by John Carroll
I wonder if the registered voters in this tent city are going to vote for Madame Manigat, Michael, or....nobody?
Jesse and Monique Sullivan
Photo by John Carroll
February 28, 2011
Our beautiful cousins in Port-au-Prince.
Airport Shuttle in Les Cayes
This is how I got to the airport in Les Cayes this morning at 6 AM. The rain had stopped about an hour earlier.
My friend Shane took this picture, and I don't really know how to drive this four wheeler. I just wanted the picture to LOOK like I knew how to drive this four wheeler.
Shane graciously drove me to the airport on this vehicle.
It was really cool.
Thanks, Shane.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Esther
Photo by John Carroll
February 26, 2011
This is Esther.
She is 10 months old and weighs 13 pounds.
She also has fever, diarrhea, and dehydration.
There are alot of Esthers in Haiti right now.
Jonathan
Photo by John Carroll
February 26, 2011
Jonathan is four years old.
On exam he had a left inguinal hernia.
It was repaired yesterday and Jonathan is happy with his bear.
Corruption Kills
Photo by John Carroll
Southern Haiti
February, 2011
See this article about how corruption kills people especially during natural disasters.
Cancer in Haiti is Especially Cruel
Photo by John Carroll
February 24, 2011
This man is a very nice 65 year old man with a very swollen abdomen. It is full of ascites.
He can't take in a big breath and cannot eat due to all the pressure in his abdomen.
A needle slipped in his left lower quadrant drained three liters of red-yellow liquid. He probably had 10 more liters inside that I did not want to touch this clinic visit.
He has wasting of his facial musculature due to lack of protein. And the has the look of a dying man.
Haiti has been plundered from inside and out for the last two hundred years and innocent people like him have suffered for the last two hundred years.
He has no access to state-of-the art diagnostic and therapeutic health care. He has no access to much of anything except poverty.
We just do for him what we can. And what I do is clearly inadequate.
Baby Doc, sitting in his hotel overlooking Port-au-Prince, should personally give a hand helping him each day. When this man has personal hygiene cares that he cannot do, Baby Doc should help.
And if Baby Doc needs a day off, someone from the States that has voted to freeze funds for public projects in Haiti during the last twenty years should come down and help this man. At least bring him some pain killers during his last days.
We don't treat our animals like this.
I know my view is skewed. I work downstream. But this scenario is really Haiti for millions of Haitians who have little access to technology that exists 90 minutes from here.
Haiti is mainly a man made disaster. It is not cursed. The devil did not do this. God did not do this.
And the earthquake did not kill people. Bad buildings killed people. Lack of medical care killed people. Lack of infrastructure killed people. Lack of caring government officials kill people.
Most Haitian suffering is not necessary and is preventable in the first place.
This nice man will die a painful death due to us.
Friday, February 25, 2011
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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