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In less than 4 weeks my son, Joshua, and I – along with a team of doctors and nurses – will be traveling to Haiti to help in a medical mission clinic run by the Church of God in Christ. We will be seeing nearly 400 patients a day.
After 27 years away from the medical field, I feel so inadequate, but I also feel so much compassion for our desperately needy brothers and sisters in Haiti.
We leave April 11 for Haiti, the 147th of 177 poorest nations in the world and the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere. Over 1.3 million people are living in make-shift tents for housing, approximately 300,000 people may have died and as many are injured, sick, and in great need of medication, nutrition and toiletries.
Dr. David Wright (pictured above with wife Ella), a full-time pastor at Community Church United partnered with Bon Secours Virginia two weeks ago to bring much needed aid to Haiti.
“It is amazing and humbling to look at what we take for granted like shoes and undergarments compared to what are necessities for them [the Haitian people].”
Dr. Fred Mcglynn treats a young boy in Haiti during the Salva Vida mission earlier in 2010
Dr. Wright, along with the Bon Secours’ team, sent canned food, toiletries, bandages, saline, pain medications, gloves and much more to the devastated island nation.
“We also saw 760 patients that week. Most of the illnesses and conditions we treated included urinary diseases, worms, gonaria and some individuals with diabetes.” Dr. Wright said. “Many of our patients walked 11 miles to our clinic.”
Dr. Wright and the Bon Secours team set up their clinic in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti in the 5,000-seat National Cathedral, which was used as a worship center and clinic.
“We’re definitely going back the last week of June,” said the Community Church United pastor. “It’s encouraging to see people with that level of resiliency.”
For more information on Dr. Wright and the Community Church United, visit their website at http://www.communitychurchunited.com/.
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