A small team consisting of Dr Bron Anders (AAP) and R.N. Angela Assalone ( BC's Childrens Hospital) -Shown in image discussing plans with Josephine de Freitas- will shortly in Haiti to both assist at the Community Hospital in Port-au-Prince. As the Port-au-prince airport is still closed to commercial flights, the team will, as with the five previous teams sent by AMDA and Rose Charities make the long road journey from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. The plan is to establish a base from which both the Haiti Pediatrics Association pediatricians can work and plan and also for AAP international pediatric teams to operate. Currently one of the Rose Charities members contacts in Haiti is kindly assisting with some limited space and this is where the initial teams will stay. The community of Haitian pediatricians have been hit hard by the disaster. Many have lost their lives while others are coping with grief and loss. Pediatric nurses are suffering the same circumstances. A second team, consisting of Dr Collin Yong and R.N. Doreen Lore (B.C. Childrens Hospital) will be relieving the first team in approximately 2 weeks time.
The current Rose Charities - AMDA Canada pediatrics assistace team consisting of Dr Pargat Singh Bhurji and R.N. Kirby Pickard will return at the end of next week. They find they are treating a wide spectrum of cases including dehydration, phycials injuries, diarrhoea, respiratory tract and a host of other infections. The work is very stressful and taxing under extremely difficult conditions. The disaster not only has inflicted terrible primary injuries (fractures, crush, inhalataion etc) but also reduced regular medical services to an extremely low level, meaning that demand for all aspects of medicine and surgery are now huge
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