What We Know - Earthquake Updates
Posted Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Injured are treated outside FHM's Blanchard Clinic, which is standing tall in the background (right).
Today, the clinic opened for patients.
Second Truck being packed Tuesday, January 19
What we need by Tuesday afternoon:
- antibiotics
- analgesics
- sedatives
- orthopedic supplies (casting, etc.)
- surgical supplies (gloves, gowns, masks, scrub brushes, suture, etc.)
- anything for anesthesia
- water treatment materials
- IV fluids, dressing materials, betadine, etc.
- tents
- anything else useful for trauma
- powdered baby formula
- cloth baby diapers
- diaper pins
Supplies should be brought to FHM's Durham office, 2344 Operations Drive, Suite 201, telephone 919-382-5500. THANK YOU.
Daniel Auguste's brother, sister-in-law and nephew are OK
Daniel Auguste, FHM's administrative assistant in the Durham office and a native of Haiti received wonderful news last night. His brother Patrick, Patrick's wife and their baby son have all survived the earthquake. The mom and baby were in their house during the quake, but managed to escape before the building collapsed.
Today is happy day in the FHM office.
Update from Father Joseph Monday evening
January 18, 2010
8:09p.m
Peace & Greetings From Fondwa !
Thanks for your concern, your support and prayers. We have lost about 25 people in Fondwa including a member of the Sisters of St. Anthony of Fondwa: Sr. Odile Damus and a child of 2 years from the Fondwa Orphanage: Jude Dubic. They both died at the APF Guest Center which have been destroyed completely. Everything in Fondwa has gone. The infrastructure that we have built in 22 years: the Orphanage, the School, the APF Center, the Clinic, the Radio Station ( Radyo Zetwal ) the Sisters' Convent, the buildings of the University of Fondwa ( 7 of them). Everything has gone.
NOTE: When FHM employee Jamalyn Peigh Williamson was on site during the 4:53 quake on January 12, the orphanage was standing and all the children were safe. We have not been able to verify Fr. Joseph's information that the orphanage has fallen.
The epi-center of the earthquake was in Fondwa, between Leogane and Jacmel. The big building of Pastor Luc Guerrier has gone. The Roman Catholic Church in Fondwa has gone also. The Church of Philadelphie ( a Protestant Church) has gone with about 15 young people under the concrete blocs. The Spiritan have lost one Seminarian, Stephane Douge who died with 12 other Seminarians ( Oblates, Montfortans ) at CIFOR. CIFOR ( a theological school for religious in Port-au-Prince) is gone completely.
The Cathedral of Port-au-Prince has gone also. The Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Mgr. Joseph Serge Miot died and will be buried on Saturday January 24. A big part of St. Martial College has gone, specially the Elementary Section which was also used as the Spiritan Pre-Noviciate House. All of the buildings of St. Martial are damaged a lot.
Our spiritan house in Senghor where I live with Fr. Patrick Eugene is seriously damaged. Our court-yard is used actually as a Refugee Center for about 200 victims of the earthquake. The other Spiritans are Ok.
Fonkoze has lost 3 employees - one Branch ( Bizoton near Port-au-Prince) has gone and 6 other branches very damaged. The Central Office and the Port-au-Prince branch are among them.
But the rest of us are alive and are in strongly in solidarity with the rest of the Country. Together, we can rebuild Fondwa and Haiti.
Update from Pastor Leon late Monday night via Bill Glass
I spoke with Leon this PM on Skype. As we spoke there was another aftershock. Leon said that with each of those, more buildings fall.
The Blanchard clinic saw patients today - though there was some trouble with crowd control. The Cite Soleil clinic will open tomorrow, with some lessons learned applied. We hope to be able to operate the C/S clinic daily and soon staff a short term clinic at Blanchard with some American docs that Mission of Hope is probably bringing over later this week.
Food distribution continues. More people are living in the compounds. We have no further word about any other casualties. However, the leaders are conducting a neighborhood census to determine both casualties/imjuries and house condition. This will help us better meet and plan for the community's needs.
Update from Pastor Luc in Blanchard
Hello Friends,
I know it has been frustrating not hearing from me the last couple days. I have been out mostly coordinating some efforts to ministering to the people in the Blanchard areas as well as family members and relatives.
So far we are doing the best we can with food and water distributions, but still in serious need for medical attention, which we are working on. Let's pray that the commercial flights will resume so our partner missionaries can get down to help out.
Things are horrible here in every way beyond what can be seen on any TV news.
On a more personnal basis, things are getting worse as Leon and I are facing great difficulties to get diesel/gas to run back and forth in reaching out and coordinating our ministries to the people. It is the same thing for our diesel generator. We want to provide as much as water we can to the communities but no diesel is available.
We were lucky yesterday to for both Leon and i to get 5 gallons each of us in black market. We will continue to wrk hard as the Lord allows.
Please continue to pray and look for ways to stand with us as we want to make the best of every opportunity to show the people and grieving families that they are not alone and the Lord will never give up on them. Please expect more pictures and updates as electricity (generator/gas)allows.
Luc
Email from Napeau that all are well on the Blanchard staff
In an email to Kathy this afternoon, Napeau, FHM's Blanchard clinic manager, reports that all the staff at the Blanchard clinic have survived the earthquake.
