Surgically, things have gotten so much better in the last 24 hours. There are now two wooden floor tents with AC in which to operate-- so they are no longer using the dusty classrooms for surgery. (There is a short video of the new tent ORs on the Operation Smile site.) In addition, the off-site day-surgery site is up and running well, providing an additional OR. They were able to get a broken auto-clave from another group-- which was then fixed by the team bio-engineer, so now they have significantly increased their turn-around time for instrument sterilization. Since they were running out of sterile gowns and sponges, the team asked the new Ecuadorian team if they could have some of their supplies-- so now they have another 24 hours of surgical supplies to operate. Spence Reid spent the first full day at the off-site OR, but Jay and Shane Johnson did a flap at that site today. And the plan is for them to go back to the off-site OR together again tomorrow.
The view from Haiti
Doctors on the frontlines report back.