Day 4-10
Discovered that I had a cousin deployed in Haiti as part of the UN contingent. I've never met him so decide to pay him a visit with Brandon. We are fed and we are happy after a few days of no sleep and power bars.
A new team of docs fly in and we are able to visit some of the more devasted areas. We visit delmas 3 where a tent city has been set up. Olearn really quickly to change bandages and assist the other docs. It's really eye opening and disturbing.
Alex and myself have to go to promess a UN med supply depot we hitch a ride with the first guy we pull over and he takes us there, it just so happens that his office is directly across from the promess compound. We need to head back so we flag down us army humvees and we get given a ride back to bojeux park. I haven't mentioned that bojeux parc is a old kiddy playland that has been concerted into a med facility.
We decide to head back to the Pakistan UN compound ad we are so hungry. So we flag down the first reasonable looking vehicle and we are given a ride and then get lost. The 3 Haitians taking us are totally drunk on rum and keep mentioning that they will kill us. We are looking for a place called Cajeux but the pronouciation of this place gets us into trouble. We eventually find the spot thankfully and have a spendid meal again.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Haiti. Bojeux parc
Today I finished the rebuilding of the shower stalls and built shelves for the docs out of material salvaged from the building structure that collapsed during the earthquake.
Prior to today this trip has been an insane ride, here's a brief day by day breakdown.
Day 1
Departed Chicago after paying AA an additional $600.00 for all the checked in luggage. Arrived in Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic and our contact Todd forgot to pick us up. We met Alex and Brandon who had flown in from CA and asked if they could join us. We decided to head to a hotel with all our luggage that included 10 large boxes and 4 suitcases of meds supplies. We went to boca chica and checked into the Hamilton hotel the seediest most nastiest place you have ever seen.
Taxi - $80.00
Hotel rooms - $150.00
Day 2
Trying to get get a hold of Todd with no luck. The 4 of us decide to try and get a ride into Haiti. We get a price for $600.00 but we manage to knock it down to $300.00 but just as we are about to leave Todd calls and so we head to his hotel. We meet Todd and his new Haitian friend who met him at Miami airport. This guys wife was raped after her vehicle rolled over during the earthquake.
Day 3
We finally head out at 3.30 am as we need to cross the border into Haiti during the day time as the are instances of hijacking.
We get to our camp at 9.30am. Alex and Amjad start working the clinic and Brandon is the pharmacist.
Prior to today this trip has been an insane ride, here's a brief day by day breakdown.
Day 1
Departed Chicago after paying AA an additional $600.00 for all the checked in luggage. Arrived in Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic and our contact Todd forgot to pick us up. We met Alex and Brandon who had flown in from CA and asked if they could join us. We decided to head to a hotel with all our luggage that included 10 large boxes and 4 suitcases of meds supplies. We went to boca chica and checked into the Hamilton hotel the seediest most nastiest place you have ever seen.
Taxi - $80.00
Hotel rooms - $150.00
Day 2
Trying to get get a hold of Todd with no luck. The 4 of us decide to try and get a ride into Haiti. We get a price for $600.00 but we manage to knock it down to $300.00 but just as we are about to leave Todd calls and so we head to his hotel. We meet Todd and his new Haitian friend who met him at Miami airport. This guys wife was raped after her vehicle rolled over during the earthquake.
Day 3
We finally head out at 3.30 am as we need to cross the border into Haiti during the day time as the are instances of hijacking.
We get to our camp at 9.30am. Alex and Amjad start working the clinic and Brandon is the pharmacist.
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