Haiti in Context: Reactions from a Recent Medical Mission
By: Sallie Wilson, CC'11
My dad [Dr. Hadley Wilson, SHVI] and I decided to go to Haiti in August of last year. We were both interested in doing medical mission work and I had recently reignited my French language skills in France. Little did we know, we would be narrowly avoiding death, or at least tragedy, by leaving two days before the earthquake of January 12, 2010 struck.
We stayed with Haitian-born doctors Hubert Morquette and Junie Hyacinthe and worked at their newly built mission hospital named Kings Hospital in Port-au-Prince. Their complex includes a six-story hospital, an orphanage of sixty-four children, and a school of 108 children.
Upon first arriving in Port-au-Prince on Sunday night, the entire city seemed to be out and moving, with many people on foot despite the pouring rain. Those that were not walking were piling into vibrantly painted "tap-taps," pick-up trucks with a rain cover attached to the bed that serve as Haiti's public transportation. Upon asking Hubert why there were so many people outside, he explained saying Port-au-Prince was a city built for 600,000 people that has a population of 2 million.
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