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I am busy Editing and uploading the video I captured in Haiti.
In Haiti, Patrick is stunned by my question “Is there anything you want to tell the world?” The Answer seems obvious to him.
I am not quite sure where I was when I shot the above footage. I believe it may have been Petionville. Many people were showing me their wounds, and asking what they could do to fix them. Many wounds were beyond first responder ability. Most people had horrible infections that needed to be treated by a medical professional. I could see that some people were going to need amputations. I would say “You need to wash that out, keep it clean, and see a doctor as soon as possible”, But as soon as the words left my mouth, I knew how stupid they were. These particular people had one bucket of water between 50 - 60 individuals, and obviously there were no doctors.
One elderly gentlemen asked me to look at his wounds, and he had infected scrapes on his skull, and some lacerations on his arm, He had managed to bandage his arm, and used an orange skin poultice. I asked him how long the orange skin had been on there, he said two days. I told him to remove it immediately as the fruit skin had probably already started to mold and rot. I let him know that the citrus juice may be good for for cleaning out his wound initially, but using a fruit skin paultice would only cause infection quicker.
I had no surgical gloves, so I could not touch any badly injured people. I felt bad that I could not do more. However, I am not an EMT or doctor, I had no supplies. Just the shirt on my back and my camera. I did not even have water for myself at this point. I wish I could have put down my camera, and helped these people directly, but I knew the only thing I could do was document the situation, and show people of the world in the hopes that it would inspire them to send help.
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