Haiti reflection by TR’s Dr. Jane Nelson
For me, personally, the trip to Haiti with TR was a fascinating look at medicine in a third world country. The Cholera Treatment Centers (CTCs) and Oral Rehydration Points (ORPs) [...]
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Email Update from Mike Washington, Team Leader for TR2, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
15 Feb 2011 Perhaps the biggest event for today was the sudden and tremendous deluge of rain that hit in the afternoon. You could see the clouds forming in the [...]
Post-Haiti Journal Entry from Charissa Richards
Day 3: I was sitting in the triage tent of the Les Cayes CTC, taking advantage of the short break in patients. Les Cayes gets over 40 new patients a [...]
TR2 arrives in Haiti; Update from Sandi O’Neill
We arrived in Les Cayes mid-afternoon Saturday from our arrival in Port-au-Prince. We met the IMC people at the local HQ and checked into the hotel. Dr. Jane Nelson, Ali [...]
TR North Winds Down
TR-North winds down in Port-au-Prince tonight. The city is calm, no political unrest, and we get to relax with a cold Prestige. We can’t ask for much more here… Share
TR northern element arrives in Verette, Haiti
We just arrived in Verette at 1135 local time. The beds here continue to get full – 21 new patients yesterday, and 12 so far today. Time to start pushing [...]
Day 7 update from Marine Veteran Clay Hunt
Team Rubicon arrives at Rabo Tou CTC this morning to find that one of our patients here, an 18 year old girl, expired last night. Dr Ogles is going through [...]
TR’s northern element spends 6 and a half hours in a car today to go set up a new ORP in Platana
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Sam Chapetta Day 6 Reflection: How TR South Winds Down
TR trekked out once yesterday, to revisit the village of Baze Lais. The purpose of the excursion was to discuss the possibility of setting up an oral rehydration post (ORP [...]
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