Its obviously gonna be real hard to document this all. But, let me start with flying in. The first thing we saw was a hillside filled with tents, a makeshift town of refugees from the earthquake.
As were landing, and once were on the ground, its honestly hard to tell the difference between ruins from the earthquake and just utter poverty.
There's a palpable sense of nervous excitement among the workers. Everyones really eager to work, but no one sure exactly how to do this.
There's basically 3 tents. One houses the volunteers. The idea is to find a cot 1) on high ground (yeah, not level ground) so that your cot hopefully doesn't flood when the rains come; and 2) close to the fan, which does little to no good.
The second tent has the ER's, the adult ICU, and some surgery stuff.
The last tent houses the general peds and adult patients, the pediatric ICU, and the neonatal ICU. There are patients on mechanical ventilators, and patients actively dying. Lots of open wounds, lots of malnutrition.
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