Initial blog

Hopital Ste Croix has been working continuously since the earthquake on January. We are currently holding clinic in the parking lot under the mango tree, as people are still hesitant to enter any building. The drugs from theguesthouse have been moved to the hospital pharmacy and are being given to patients as proscribed by the 5 doctors and residents working at the hospital. The x-ray facility and the laboratory facility are working.

Three days after the earthquake, Medicines Sans Frontiers moved a tent hospital into the eye clinic and the field behind the hospital, and are doing surgery in 3 operating rooms. Surgical cases that can not be done at the hospital are being referred to medicines sans frontiers or to a tent hospital that has been set up at the nursing school.

John Parker returned to HSC on Feb 14 to serve as 'clerk of the works' for the hospital and the nursing school. He will work to coordinate the repairs to both facilities, and to continue to work toward the opening of the in-patient functions of the hospital.

Take a look at the slide show on the right side of the blog to see the damage to the hospital. Watch this blog to stay current as decisions are made about the future of the hospital. Please keep praying that the hospital will continue developing into a stable, sustainable hospital for the people of Leogane.