Haiti Disaster Relief Report 1/29/10 .Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment Foundation
Anitra Thorhaug (1987 Laureate) , Ph.D.

The general situation in Haiti has increased in security of emergency Personnel and in distribution of food and materials within the Port-au-prince area, although many outlying communitites still are without services.
 
Our Greater Caribbean- Dr. Sanon clinics team #3 entered on Thursday the 21 January and including the lead team of Dr. E. Jack Allison, Dr. George Poehlman , George Danenberg RN  and including a series of physicians from various Caribbean nations have left Haiti after they  set up systems of treating people in “The Tabernacle”, where they treated many hundreds of patients for lacerations, crush wounds, fractures, infections of all natures, other injuries and some birthing  problems including necessities for Caesarian sections. This was extremely helpful to the injured and greatly appreciated by those treated who mostly were below the poverty level and many without shelter. The team met with the Ministry of Health with, along with Dr. Christian Sanon Founder of the International Medical Village, of the Vasco Emerging Clinics and Center Axion Clinics in the larger Port au Prince Area. The Ministry entrusted to the Dr. Sanon–Greater Caribbean Group the Town of Gressier, a farming town which is west of Port au Prince by tens of miles. It was 80% destroyed by the earthquakes. No supplies or medical treatments had yet been received into this area. Our forward team lead by Dr. E. J. Allison ( University of Eastern North Carolina Emergency Department)  and Livio Valenti ( from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) made a reconnaissance of the  Gressier area to target food and other supplies and medical treatments. Livio Valenti continued to coordinate with the Mayor of Gressier who was very helpful to Livio creating maps of the new situation including number of persons in each surrounding village, list of surrounding villages, number of families and number of people in each accessibility and needs. ( more than 5000 tents with families for the UN to deliver supplies into the town). We now have a building to do medical procedures; however, it needs very rapid modification. People have non-food supplies and food and water are en route. The teams to create medical supplies are being mobilized. Dr. Tom Powers, who is now chief of Party for Gressier and  Gran Goave from the Sanon-Greater Caribbean mission is on the ground assessing medical needs, teams for servicing the medical needs, facilities to set up medical clinic and other options to create a temporary medical facility for the medical treatments necessary.

Contributions to help us get physicians to give treatment the injured can be sent to our web site on GCEEF.org and utilize our donate button. The contributions really go a long way to help all this effort.

Contact - Anitra Thorhaug <athorhaug@msn.com>