Medical team arrives in Haiti
Medical team leaving Burlington, Vermont.
A medical team sponsored by Pure Water for the World (PWW) and Angel Mission Haiti arrived in Port-au-Prince on Friday, January 22. Drs. Patti Fisher, Jean Andersson-Swayze, Anne Marie Gleeson and nurses Mary McLaughlin and Kathy Pomminville will spend the next two weeks in Port-au-Prince providing critically needed medical care to the victims of Haiti’s recent earthquake.
This is Dr. Fisher’s fifteenth trip to Haiti in the past nine years, where she has previously worked in medical clinics in remote villages in northern Haiti. With the financial and on-the-ground support of Pure Water for the World, the team of three doctors and two nurses traveled via an Angel Mission Haiti chartered flight to Port-au-Prince and be working in an Angel Mission Haiti clinic for the next two weeks. The medical team was also able to transport much needed medical supplies to assist them in treating the vast numbers of injured Haitians.
Pure Water for the World is committed to providing clean water for the medical team both for drinking and medical purposes. The importance of clean water extends far beyond clean drinking water. As our doctors and nurses work to treat the injured, there is also an urgent need for clean water for wound care. Contaminated water significantly increases the risk of wound infection and delays healing. Now, even more than ever, the need for clean water for our medical teams remains a top priority.
Update on Staff in Haiti-
Our staff in Haiti continues to assist those impacted by the earthquake, even as they themselves have been displaced from their homes. The continued aftershocks have rendered the staff house inhabitable and as such our staff is sleeping on the streets. Despite these ongoing enormous challenges, they continue to work tirelessly to deliver water and install filters at the recently established refugee camps. A water distribution center has also been set up at the filter factory and is providing an estimated 300 gallons of clean water daily to a refugee camp across the street.
Pure Water remains committed to its mission to provide clean water to Haiti and to the ongoing support of our medical teams now working there.
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