Today marks our second morning in Haiti. We said goodbye to our friends from Miami today who provided us such a tremendous welcome and were truly a wonderful team that was able to fill all rolls and were able to support us in transition and getting our feet on the ground our first full day in Haiti. They left at 5:00 a.m. this morning and we wish them well. We wish them safe travel. Hopefully we can partner with them once again.
We now anxiously await the arrival of our Team #4-B, a team of nurses that will be arriving in Haiti at noon today. They will be a welcome addition to allow us to expand our census of patients once again and have adequate staff and resources to care for them.
Additionally today will mark my first trip outside of the Double Harvest Mission to the University of Miami facility at the airport in Port-Au-Prince. We have made contact with them and have agreed to transfer patients from their facility to ours that we are equipped to master in an orthopaedic standpoint. In exchange, we will transfer some of our patients that are in less of an acute need to them which will open up and allow us to continue our endeavors.
Our team was able to, for the first time meet members of the Van Wingerden family yesterday andwe cannot express with anymore gratitude how much it is that we appreciate the effort of the Van Wingerden family, Double Harvest and the staff and individuals from Partners In Health as well. As noted previously, we have had good contact and discussion with Dr. Jonas from Partners in Health as well as the 82nd Airborne, the Van Wingerden family as well as the local physicians here. It will continue to be a collaboration and a focused effort of communication between all of these parties in order to maximize our effort and provide what is best for the Haitian people.
Again we look forward to a productive day and we wish our family, our friends, our colleagues at home a wonderful week and for you to know that we are safe and we are comfortable and look forward to meeting our friends later today.
Terrence J. Endres, M.D.
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Terry.. wishing you and your crew a safe trip to and through Haiti. Happy 40th Birthday!
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TJ,
In case your energies give rise to reading, the winds of Alaska come south with good wishes for the work of your hands, and the assistance of your team. The hands and the eyes are the art of portrait photography and surely, they are tools in your art as well. Good wishes. Wishing I was there to document your fine efforts.
Patrick