As the
days have gone by we have been confronted with more and more financial need.
Thanks to many of you we have been able to pay for the medication necessary to
bring with us to Haiti. We have paid for several patients to be transported to
Port au Prince for treatment there and we have been able to commit to
sponsoring a local physician to work at the clinic we established here on a
part-time basis. For all of this we are extremely thankful.
This
evening we were approached by a family member of a patient that we had sent to
Port au Prince. The child is 4 months old and still weighs 4kg which was her
birth weight. She has been diagnosed with pyloric stenosis since we referred
her but she was then sent to 4 hospitals some of them did not have surgeons to
do the surgery and some did not have any space available. At the last hospital
they admitted this baby but the baby is now awaiting surgery and the hospital
requires $2500.00 to cover the costs.
If any
of you are able to give some support to this family please go to the website at
www.haitiarise.org and click on the DONATE tab.
Then use the tab that indicates donate in Canadian dollar through Paypal. It is
very important that you mention “Sask nursing team” in
the comment section. The funds will
then be directed towards this baby.
The
family is collecting money and is not expecting all the funds from us. The
problem is that they urgently need half the money as a deposit prior to
proceeding with the surgery and time is of the essence as this baby is unable
to feed at all.
Thank
you for carrying all of us here in your hearts – Canadians are awesome people
(and Haitians too).
Antoinette
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