Here’s the latest report on the status of Hospital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti (which I mentioned here last week). After an initial, frustrating delay in the arrival of earthquake victims, due to the lack of adequate transportation from the capitol, the hospital staff and U.S. volunteers are now fully engaged in treating a surge of new patients. Cargo shipments of supplies and equipment from Texas and Massachusetts, joined by additional teams of medical personnel, are on their way. See below:

As of 9 PM tonight [Jan 18] the ORs were still busy. The hospital is full and they are moving the post op patients to the school across the street to make room for the new injured patients. They have 11 cases scheduled for tomorrow which does not include the new patients expected by helicopter tomorrow. All of the cases are major surgeries and have heavily infected wounds. Up to now all of the patients have survived.
The need for blood is great and the community is very supportive in donating blood for the victims of this tragedy. They are expecting additional patients to be transferred from Cap Haitian for care at 2 am tomorrow. Despite all of this Dr Previl, the hospital’s medical director, says in his report that everything went smoothly for the regular patients seen at the hospital!!
They have turned the delivery room into a 3rd OR and are using the room next to it for debridement,casting and reducing fractures with sedation. They are running low on supplies.
A new team of physicians and nurses from St Elizabeth’s hospital in Boston, part of Caritas Christi, will be arriving on Wednesday with another plane full of supplies. The number of physicians and other medical personnel offering to volunteer is staggering. We are trying to find planes to take them and more supplies to Haiti in the coming weeks. Please let us know if you have any contacts who are willing to donate their planes for use.

Peter Kelley at the Crudem Foundation can be reached at [email protected].