Medical Team

In August 17 through 20 of 2006 the surgical team completed 43 procedures on 34 people- half from St Michel area where Living Hope is, and half from the local area around Double Harvest (the mission that has the operating room). Our team was comprised of two surgeons, one anesthesiologist, two CRNAs, and eight nurses and OR techs, and two support people.

The folks from St Michel drove 12 hours in our school bus, bringing Pastor Edner and Dr. John (our clinic doctor) and several ladies to cook for the entire crew.

Some of the medical conditions that we treated were horrendous. To accomplish 34 surgeries in two days, the team started early, worked fast, and worked late. Everyone's attitude was incredible-there were no complaints about the workload at all. All of the surgeries were very successful.


Our second surgical trip to Haiti (Nov 16-19) was an incredible success. We took three Baptist Hospital Surgeons and operated on 48 patients in two and half days. Some of the medical condition were incredibly bad - the entire team (20 people) was delighted to be able to help some of the people that Jesus referred to as "the least of these". Tim Hawkins, an executive at Baptist, organizes all of the people and details for these surgical trips.

One of the surgeons ( Harvard trained) Dr. Michael Canning, emailed me two days after the trip: "Haiti was a life-changing experience for me. Our lives here are so rich and we have so much to be thankful for."

A three year old little girl came into the clinic on 11/18 with a huge abscess on her abdominal wall. The physicians were convinced that she would die in 48 hours without surgery. They operated on her with excellent results. She is expected to make a full recovery.