The cat scan technician gave the children a medicine to make them sleep. Some babies took longer than others to fall asleep. This is definitely not a sleepy child!
Sarafina and her mother never showed up for the assessments. She called the evening before the children were supposed to be admitted to the hospital to say that she had no money for a tap-tap to go from the refuge camp in Corrail to Port-au-Prince. I was kind of disappointed in that this camp has many large NGO's like World Vision, Plan, UN, Save the Children, Unicef and not one of them would drive her into town. We raced out there early the next day to pick her up.
Her tent is starting to rip. There are temporary homes being built in Corrail and some of the tents have to be moved to another site in the camp. Sarafina's mother asked the women tent neighbors to keep an eye on her tent and to help her brother in shifting the tent over.
Sarafina's mother has almost nothing. She doesn't even have a bed, but her mother doesn't complain. The father was killed during the earthquake. They are from the Fort National area and after the earthquake set up in the Champ Mars area. World Vision transferred Sarafina and her mother from the difficult living conditions in the Champ Mars area to Camp Corrail.
The mother got Sarafina ready and we headed over to the hospital hoping that Sarafina would get added to the surgical list.
This young baby was also abandoned by the cat scan machine. The baby was born by caesarean section with an already enlarged head. The baby was only 3 days old when I took this photo. The hospital was able to find an orphanage to take in this baby as well. Pray for these 2 abandoned babies and for those who are caring for them now.
The hospital is small and it uses every available space to help as many people as possible. The mothers don't mind. Their children are getting the medical care that they need.
The mother of this young baby is a christian. She placed a bible by his head.
Nephtalie Bazile is a young girl who we had sent to the United States for surgery 4 years ago. She was getting evaluated to see if another surgery would help her. She can talk and communicate but because of her large head she still can not sit up by herself yet.
This child is sleeping restfully in her bed. The first surgical day, 7 surgeries were done.
