Team 5 home and safe. (February 20th)
Dr. Bohay
Tag Archives: West Michigan support
The transition of teams – Dr. Schwab
February 22, 2010 – 11:40 am
Team 5 left today and 6 is on its way. As with all of the teams they did a great job and I was so impressed with all of them. It is a great experience to work with such dedicated and talented people. Our group (5a) is providing the transition and that will be very [...]
Thanks for support in Haiti and back home – Dr. Matelic
February 22, 2010 – 11:35 am
Home tomorrow.
We went to Port-au-Prince today and visited the university hospital. It is the only standing med center in the city. We saw all the destruction first hand and drove through the busiest, noisiest, and dirtiest city I have ever seen. We actually wore face masks to protect us from the smoke, stench of garbage [...]
Sense of renewal – Dr. Bohay
February 18, 2010 – 9:48 am
7:11 a.m.
We were visited yesterday by Dr. Charles who is in charge of overall medical communication and logistics here in Haiti. She is among a group in Haiti who have organized a countrywide scheme to identify facilities with beds and resources available. She commended us on the Double Harvest facility and sent praise to all [...]
Tremendous support from Haitian counterparts
February 12, 2010 – 11:27 am
We have left Double Harvest, but one item that escaped us was tetanus rounds. They were out, but Grace stated we had since received more. We had planned to give everyone tetanus shots prior to leaving. However, time escapes us as we left for the airport at 8 a.m.. We are here now, waiting for [...]
A new covenant for Haiti
February 11, 2010 – 9:57 am
It is just before midnight on Wednesday as I step outside to once again talk to a machine to summarize our day’s events in hopes of bringing our family and friends a bit closer to us through this blog. I look around and there are a few lights in the distance The stars are out [...]
OAM team #4, day 4 in Haiti
February 10, 2010 – 10:13 am
To recap our second day in Haiti at the Double Harvest Mission: It wouldn’t be another day in Haiti without another delivery! Yes today, Susan Kaminski the OB specialist with us was busy once again. There was another emergent delivery of an infant in the back of a pickup truck. The team at Double Harvest [...]
OAM’s work highlighted in the Grand Rapids Press
February 9, 2010 – 4:31 pm
West Michigan orthopaedic surgeons gave own blood as they worked to save patients injured in Haiti earthquake
By Ted Roelofs | The Grand Rapids Press
February 09, 2010, 11:28AM
As earthquake recovery in Haiti continues, a group of West Michigan medical volunteers is finding rays of hope amid despair and destruction. At a small health clinic east of [...]
