Haiti Mission Project
Loma Linda University School of Medicine Class of 2010
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Numbers & Toys
Posted on February 12th, 2010 No commentsWell it's been a whirlwind couple of days here. Every night I say to myself tonight you're going to do a blog posting. Unfortunately that conversation usually occurs around 10:30 or 11PM. After a 16-17 hour work day, the pillow tends to overrule the keyboard. So tonight's posting is happening at 9:30PM but is still going to be brief.
Some of you reading the blog have already been here as volunteers and have asked for updates about what we are doing and what our current census is. Well here you go:
Report for yesterday Thursday 2/11/2010
431 New patient visits
57 Admissions
~250 Patients on site
~1000 Total number of people living on the hospital grounds
14 Surgical procedures performed in the indoor O.R.s (STS Graft, 4 ORIF humerus reductions, Hernia repair, Thyroidectomy, Laporotomy, anoplasty, Foot Flap, I&D Subscapular abscess, ORIF Tibia, Leg STSG, Femur ORIF)
8 -10 out-patient surgical procedures performed with IV sedation
And now for those of you who don't have a clue as to what those procedures are...
One of the fun parts of this job is the opportunity to hand deliver gifts from kids in the states to our patients. Here are a few of our kids here as the receive hand made cards from the LLUC Childrens division and a few toys from my boys.
Thank you all for your prayers and your support.
