DAY 3

We went back to the same site for the second day as the need is immense. The medical highlight of the day was that we had a baby boy who had a fever and was breathing very fast, we thought he had clinical pneumonia; again, we had to be innovative with what we had. We used a paper drinking cup as a spacer to work with the asthma pump. After a few treatments, anti-fever medicine and antibiotic, the little boy was looking so much better. By noon-time we realized that we were running seriously short of medication and had to make an emergency trip to a local “mega” pharmacy which is extremely lacking just about everything. Fortunately, at the end of the day we were able to find a pharmaceutical manufacturer which is a real God send. This allowed us to restock a lot of items such as anti-fungal cream, children Tylenols, cough medicine, antiscabies, worm medicine, and antacid.

We cleaned more teeth and did more extractions. By now our fashion manager/chemical engineer dental assistants were working like clockwork. We had so many decayed teeth to fix that we actually asked a few patients to come back to our lodge at night so we can see them as there is no illuminating equipment in the tent city. They came to the guest house at around 7:30pm; we set them up on the front porch and worked until past 10pm. Did I mention we also experienced a tropical thunderstorm during the procedure with frequent power outages? Please pray for more dentists and hygienists to come to Haiti, people here really need our help!