2nd UPDATE (Saturday evening 6/25): We've raised $2040 so far! Thanks so much to everyone who's donated and to those who are re-posting to help spread the word. Please continue to donate if you are able to so we can meet this need for Real Hope for Haiti. Please contact me with any questions (jenniferhalverson09 AT gmail DOT com).
1st UPDATE (Friday afternoon 6/24): Please see Licia's post from today here. I am going out on a limb and will be purchasing another ~$2500 worth of medications to be sent to Haiti ASAP. I don't have the funds for these meds yet but am trusting they will come in. Please help if you can! See below for information on how to donate. Thanks.
Thank you to everyone who has already donated money and supplies to help treat cholera in Haiti!
The 2nd "wave" of cholera in Haiti is just as bad as the first, if not worse. I continue to stay in contact with my friends at Real Hope for Haiti. They are tired and their incredible Haitian workers are tired, but every day & night their works continues and they continue to save hundreds of lives.
Please go here to read Licia's update from today. Here is an excerpt:
We do a bed count each evening at the cholera house. This week we had the highest 87 patients sleeping at the house. 59 of those were on IV’s and 28 were drinking ORS. Each of these patients has a caregiver that is sleeping in a chair by them. Now there are a few families that might have 2 or 3 kids there and they just have one care giver. We has to send 10 people home that did not live far away. They were drinking ORS and were not that bad. We told them to come back in the night if they got worse. We did not have an empty chair or even a cement block for people to sit on.
Most of the supplies and medications needed to treat cholera can be obtained in Haiti (either via donations or by purchasing). There are a couple medications that are easier to find (or cheaper to purchase) here in the U.S. I just placed a $900 medication order that I will be picking up in a few days, and sending to Haiti next week. About $700 of the order is medications for cholera. The remaining $200 of the order is miscellaneous medications (for burns, respiratory illnesses, etc) that will be given to both Real Hope for Haiti and to Heartline.
I still have about $800 in the medication account so I'll be able to pay for most of this order with donated funds. However, as I've written before, cholera is not going away anytime soon, so please continue to donate if you are able to. I anticipate that I'll be placing medication orders every month for the indefinite future. The more donated funds I have in the medication account, the more I'll be able to purchase.
I continue to work with Haiti Mission Project to collect monetary donations. To donate online using Paypal, please go HERE and click on the 2nd yellow "Donate" button. If you'd like to donate by check, please indicate in the memo section that your donation is for "medications for Haiti". As always, 100% of all donations are used to purchase medications (and occasionally medical supplies), and all donations are tax-deductible. Tax donation receipts are provided at the end of the year.
Please see this post for more details about donating supplies. They are especially in need of 22 and 24 gauge IV catheters and "microdrip" IV tubing. If you are in Haiti and have access to these supplies, please contact Licia (Licia AT realhopeforhaiti DOT org). If you are in the U.S. and have access to these supplies, please contact me at jenniferhalverson09 AT gmail DOT com
With the right medications, supplies, and (especially) personnel, cholera can be successfully treated.
Please e-mail me with any questions.
Thank you again for your generosity!
Jen
5 comments:
hey, where did you get your header image? i love it but i can't make it out very well.
i've been reading updates from real hope for haiti. they're amazing.
the pic was taken by Beth, on either the 1st or 2nd night after our earthquake clinic opened--these were some of our first patients, the ones we couldn't send home (or really, to a tent or the street) because their injuries were too severe.
the woman in the red shirt is the mom of one of our patients, and the wife of the pastor who ended up leading church services nightly at the hospital for months. their story is incredible.
during those first couple nights we kept the patients at (what was) the sewing center (which we'd turned into an ER/OR). the picture was taken in the courtyard of the sewing center--most people wouldn't sleep inside. some of the sewing center's walls fell down (only partially) and the house had some cracks but not bad.
after those first couple nights we moved our overnight patients to (what was) the boy's home--and it became the hospital for the next year. the ER/OR stayed open for maybe about 6 weeks, then it went back to being the sewing center, and we moved everything medical (including ER/OR stuff) to the hospital. crazy times.
as for the pic, Beth wasn't trying to do anything funky with the effects--it just turned out that way (with the weird reflections) and I love it.
wow that was long! sorry...most pics have quite a story behind them.
more info on cholera here - FAQ on Cholera
i'd love a copy if you can email it to me. the light and color remind me of a renaissance painting. really beautiful.
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