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Tuesday Feb 02, 2010

Global Health Team Arrives in Haiti

 

CHOP team in Haiti

 

The Global Health Haiti Disaster Response team receives instructions from Tony Rich, manager of emergency preparedness, during final orientation at the Incident Command Center at Children’s Hospital before departing for Haiti. The members are Team Leader Fred Henretig, M.D.; Rakesh Mistry, M.D. ; David Chao, M.D.; Neil Uspal, M.D.; Brian Barnett, R.N.; Marcia Carter, R.N .; Warren Frankenberger, R.N.; Diane Gardella, R.N.; Wendy Hemme, R.N.; John Kimbrough, R.N.; Kathleen O’Conner, N.P.; Steve Larson, M.D . (HUP Emergency Medicine)

After snow delayed flights Saturday, the Global Health Haiti Disaster Response medical team made it safely to Port-au-Prince yesterday and established a home base camp at a facility operated by Partners In Health. Their living conditions for the 10-day trip are simple, and include three tents, two meals per day, clean drinking water and showers.  The compound is secure and safe, but very noisy due to constant military jets flying over, according to team leader Fred Henretig, M.D.

The CHOP team made an initial assessment at the hospital when they arrived and noted that the pediatric unit is large, and the care is fragmented , but the team just arrived and will have a better sense of the clinical needs today. The CHOP team is going to begin by covering the night pediatric shifts at the University Hospital. On the first night, six team members worked in the pediatric ward, a unit with about 80 to 90 young patients.   For the moment, daytime pediatric shifts are handled by a Swiss medical team. There are several international medical teams working at the hospital, speaking many different languages.

The team plans to return to the U.S. Feb. 10.

Posted at 04:56PM Feb 02, 2010 by Juliann Walsh in Health  |  Comments[5]

Comments:

Its nice to see that some people are taking an effort to help when disasters like this arise. Drinking water is a must!! Thanks!

Posted by pete on July 27, 2010 at 01:33 PM EDT #

Before the earthquake of 12 January over seventy percent of people in Haiti were living on less than $US2 per day. 86% of the residents of the capital Port au Prince were living in slums in densely populated settlements, many of them very shoddily built. Even the concrete buildings had little to withstand the earthquake. Over 225,000 people lost their lives and nearly 200,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed with over 1.5 million homeless, many of them remaining so to this day.

Posted by Terry Casey on September 09, 2010 at 10:41 AM EDT #

I think this an informative and interesting article. I think it is very useful and knowledgeable, happy to see some people still have interest in this.

Posted by Registry Booster 2010 on December 23, 2010 at 05:30 AM EST #

I believe Haiti disaster relief programs are necessary for the survival of many lovely people. Great Team Work Guys:)

Posted by Port a Potty M.D. on January 04, 2011 at 02:14 PM EST #

this post is interesting and informative . thanks for sharing knowledgeable post.and thanks for you time

Posted by flight to kathmandu on January 23, 2011 at 10:47 PM EST #

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