Medical Mission trip to Haiti

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Two of our partners at Medical Studies Abroad had the opportunity to travel to Haiti for a medical mission trip from June 5-12,2010.  Dr. David and Cindy Nelson traveled with a team of doctors, nurses, and a prosthetist  from around the US, Canada and Scotland to the Mission of Hope in Titenyan, Haiti, just outside of Port Au Prince.  The stories you see on the news cannot convey the complete and total destruction of this country. One million people are living in tents forming cities among themselves. There were few businesses before the earthquake and now there are even fewer. Shockingly there is no public system of education, so only the lucky or the wealthy are able to get an education. Even more shocking is the seeming resiliency of the Haitian people. They continue to smile, the children laugh and sing songs, and life goes on.  Team 20 operated from Monday thru Friday, seeing as many patients as possible each day. Some  patients were old fractures from the earthquake, others were new injuries such as the man whos hand was amputated with a machete late one night. There was much gratification in knowing that  the suffering of a few souls was eased just a little. It's a small drop in the bucket of suffering that is Haiti, but every drop builds to an ocean that will lead to the eventual healing of this nation.