Posts Tagged ‘Earthquake’
Leaving for Japan
The damage in Onagawa and other areas of Japan’s coast are unreal. They remind me of New Orleans after Katrina and Haiti when the quake hit. It’s sort of in between. The reality is, Japan is facing its greatest crisis since WWII.
The prime minster is quoted as saying, “The earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear incident have been the biggest crisis Japan has encountered in the 65 years since the end of the second world war. Police warn that the death toll could exceed 10,000 in Miyagi prefecture alone, and a UN agency reported that more than 1,600 people were confirmed dead. Most are thought to have drowned. I’m stunned.
Having spent time in Japan, it’s a country that I both love and admire. The people are great, and they deserve our support. I’m headed over. I leave on Tue at 6AM and arrive in Tokyo at 11:30 AM on Wed. I will keep everyone informed here and on Facebook.
James
The Need for Antibiotics
A patient who later past away
The lovely woman on the left hand an incredibly nasty crush injury to her hand when the earthquake hit and her home began to collapse. We saw her pretty much every single day at the clinic to clean the wound and dress it. We gave her what antibiotics we could, and always fed her. In many cases, the meal patients got from us was the only time they ate. It’s heartbreaking.
She and her son (seen feeding her in the photo) came by dutifully on our orders for weeks, and she began to get better. Then she stopped coming. It seems that the trip she had to take to meet us became a burden on her family, and so they took her to another clinic who didn’t clean the wound or provide her antibiotics.
I was told that several weeks after I left Haiti, she passed away.
