CNP Coordinating Léogâne Medical Aid

Staff of the Children’s Nutrition Program (CNP) remaining in Haiti are working tirelessly to treat the injured in Léogâne, and to establish a supply chain for medical supplies. Kara Telesmanick reported via e-mail this morning:

CNP team is in a vehicle on the way to Leogane now to go set up too and jump in with what has been started. [...] Save [the Children] and CNP are working on getting camps set up and we’re addressing food and water issues.

and in another e-mail:

CNP is finalizing a partnership with Save the Children and we will work with FSIL and the Notre Dame Filariasis Program to help in Leogane. Anyone interested in donating to CNP can do so at http://www.cnphaiti.org/.

According to Suzi Parker, who runs the guesthouse at l’Hôpital Sainte Croix and has been in relatively regular e-mail communication with CNP staff, the hospital is helping Doctors Without Borders to set up surgical facilities in Léogâne:

There are 3 areas of medical care in Leogane right now besides at HSC [Hôpital Sainte Croix]. The nursing school [FSIL] which operates under the umbrella of HSC has seen an enormous number of people, and had several babies born there. The soccer field in town also has seen lots of patients, and I hear that the UN compound just outside town has a group there. All over town, tent cities have grown up, and folks are building lean-to’s from salvaged building materials. [...]

Latest news is that Doctors Without Borders is setting up an operating unit in the field behind the hospital, using our electrical and water. We are lending them gas from the generator until they are operational, hopefully by tomorrow. Another NGO, Caritas, wearing Catholic Relief Services t-shirts will come and help in the day clinic. Good news, as they talked about docs, pharmacist, and supplies, and we need more of all of them.