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A lot of children were seen by the medical team too. This group of parents have already passed the registration table and is waiting their turn to see Dr. Karen

The parents enjoy getting a helping hand for their children.

Millot helped out by translating for Dr. Karen. He is an excellent translator. Last night Amos and him made a hospital run to the cholera treatment center with a family member of his. When cholera hit his family, Millot knew what to do. Translating for the doctor or helping in pharmacy helps the haitian workers who help out learn what needs to be done.

Uncontrolled blood pressure is a big problem here in Haiti. The team always comes with lots of blood pressure medicine. Pray for the teams that come to Haiti, that people will donate medicines to them and for the people that receive the help.

This young man had a badly infected lower leg and did not want to get an antibiotic injection. There is a fire amongst men in Haiti that an injection will make them sterile. One of his friends happened to be the translator and we finally talked him into accepting the injection!

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The pharmacy table was stocked with a lot of different medications that the team brought.

Jn. Eddy helped one of the days doing translating.

Reginald even helped at putting medications together. Over the week the pharmacy dispensed 9,000 pills to treat blood pressure, that is how much of a problem high blood pressure is here in Haiti.

Yonel was busy at the gate controlling access to our yard.

Frandy, one of our school teachers called people up to the front by numbered cards.

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The medical team saw 250 people at the church in Cite Soleil and over the week treated 1,000 patients over the 5 days.

Some people came to the clinic ith diarrhea and the symptoms were Cholera. During the week 2 patients in the Delmas 31 area were treated by the team for cholera and 5 patients the day we were in Cite Soleil. This was before cholera officially being announced here in Port-au-Prince. The day we were in Cite Soleil, people told us that people were getting sick in Cite Soleil. It was a couple of days later when it was officially announced that cholera was in Cite Soleil and as a result inside Port-au-Prince.

The people of Cite Soleil are very poor. Many don't have a toilet to use and are forced to use the ground or canal as their toilet. Cholera loves this type of environment. The people will need to be clean but infrastructure is now an emergency necessity. Sanitation facilities need to be established for everyone here in Port-au-Prince. Without proper sanitation cholera will always be a problem within Cite Soleil.

Pray that medical providers will be plentiful over the next few months to handle the cholera epidemic.

By the end of the day the church was empty and this sleepy boy went home.

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Late one afternoon we went to one of the refuge camps in our area with the medical team.

There were several injured children in this area. There was a visiting EMT from the United States who set up a clinic in the yard of the Morningstar school. This baby was burned the day of the earthquake. The grandmother is holding her.

A young girl had a splint on her broken leg.

Every day we made hospital runs for those who needed more intensive care, surgeries or broken bones set. Jeff and Jeff (from Florida, standing in the back of the pick-up truck) made several trips.

The wound care area was a busy place. Tanya, Marlene and Teresa were working in this area helping to bandage the wounded.