Update from Dr. Bob

here is an update from Dr. Bob Johnson's Ministry "Missions of Love." It is obviously written by someone who speaks Spanish, but I think you can figure it out...

Gentlefolk,
Our plans for the trip going in on Feb. 1st are being modified drastically and on an hourly basis. We will keep everyone updated with our plans as the date gets closer.

Following is a note from Dr. Abel Vallejos and Enrique Montenegro who are working on the ground in Port au Prince, Haiti.

Warning: This report contains graphic details about the horrific medical conditions in PAP.

MODERATOR’S NOTE: Please pray! This is a direct report from Dr. Abel Vallejos and Enrique Montenegro working on the ground in Port au Prince, Haiti.

WORSE THAN THE TSUNAMI!
Time 00:54
Wednesday, 20 January'10
Puerto Principe-HAITI

We're almost incommunicado. The team is good.

We have 7 doctors working and 8 paramedics. We are taking more than 200 injured per day.
Most amputees because of the time has come unattended, and gangrene which has been formed. All hospitals are a mess. There are corpses in the streets, people walking around and even patients in the asphalt.

We are located opposite the palace of government: it is the epicenter of ground zero. From here we see, as 80% of the buildings are lying, while others are about to fall.

The earthquake today (Wednesday) brought new people injured and hospitals muertos La are on the ground, and that some fell on him the medical equipment, or even the weight of the tents where they are served. Is total chaos! We need doctors, nurses, medicines ...
Please: Do not stop praying and giving.

People sleep on the asphalt on the streets. There are hundreds of thousands of people dumped in open fields. Although they are dead in the rubble and the streets, the smell is nauseating. We also slept in the field under a tree. It's sad ... injured children, with amputacones, bodies strewn, infected! It really is worse than living in the Tsunami!!

Our only daily food consists of water and 3 granola bars. Even the most experienced physicians like Dr. Abel Vallejos, break and cry for the pain that is here. It's so scary chaos and the situation, there are no words.

The nurse Ramon Bravo, is doing an outstanding job as the only paramedic team that makes surgery.

This is unbelievable. The emergency will last for 2 months yet, as they are millions of people who are in the streets. The city has 3 million people, there are already more than 250,000 dead and 150,000 missing. Everyone is wandering from one place to another, international help arrives ... but not enough!

"Dr. Abel Vallejos tells us that all the sick, children, toddlers, women, men and elders who serve, have trauma to the body by the pieces of masonry fell on them. The injuries are huge and have not been treated in time. The catastrophe is the ever-increasing poverty in the country.

We attend the same cases that we saw in Indonesia, a difference that is greater misery around us and thus the greater the catastrophe.

Flies abound and lay their eggs in wounds. This causes not being cleaned in time become worms, which we work even more difficult. Today we had to pull worms from their eyes even some children, apart from between the legs, arms or any injury to afford "

Of the 200,000 injured by the earthquake, tens of thousands will die of infections not treated in time. Nobody gives flooded with so much work.

It is tragic Tragic ..... .... tragic!

We meet the 3 leaders of these organizations:
* Let us love (Spain)
* YWAM (Dominican Rep.)
* Love and Grace Ministry
and decided to form a strategic alliance to work together under the name "Rescue Mission".

People are receptive to the gospel. We preach to each person we serve.
Please: keep praying, offerings, and for medical equipment that can come to support.

A greeting: Enrique Montenegro
MOL Website

As hard as it is to pass along this information that we receive, we believe it is vital that people understand the enormity of the situation. Thank you to each and every one of you who has given to the relief effort. Continue to send people to the MOL website where they can make an online contribution or encourage them to mail a check to the MOL Office. Please continue to pray for everyone involved in this catastrophic event.

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Hartford, KY 42347