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Medical Park Orthopaedic Clinic has answered the call from the medical community to aid in the care of the Haitian earthquake victims. Dr. Timothy C. Gueramy with his wife Dr. Tracey Haas are back from Haiti after assisting the medical team in establishing a prosthetic lab for the many amputees. Below are some pictures of the brand new medical clinic for the continued aid in Haiti and one of the first prosthetic fittings. Feel free to comment below.

The Mission of Hope Haiti, http://www.mohhaiti.org/ , http://www.hcbc.com/

4/2010 New Clinic Building

4/2010 First Prosthetic Patient

4/2010

1/28/2010 Hospital Ward

1/28/2010 Haitian Medical Student

1/25/2010 A tired Dr. Gueramy

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1/25/2010 Young girl with skull fracture

1/24/2010 Final preparations before boarding plane

1/24/2010 Saying goodbye to loved ones.

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Bryan Vela

1/26/2010 10:04 PM

Just got word from Dr. Haas, Dr. Gueramy's wife, that she got to speak
with him and she fowards the following: "Lots of amazing stories! He's "in
charge" of the OR there - sounds like he's running a tight, but clean, ship -
He mops the floors between cases and stays on top of every detail. Lots
of crazy injuries and they've been taking care of folks who had been
treated elsewhere - for example, a Haitian medical student had an open
tib/fib casted... now infected, of course. Tim fashioned a cast saw out of
some sort of hack saw and cut off his cast, then cleaned it out and ex-
fixed it. He says word was spread that there was a surgery team with a
very clean OR and several cases were sent their way from the main
hospital in Port-au-Prince which has been inundated. Word is that they
may have the only working autoclave around - the Navy may be sending
ortho 10+ cases to them tomorrow if they find a place to land.

The OR has two operating stations, so they can do two cases at a time.
Yesterday one woman was getting an AKA and the other a BKA, and they
sang loudly through the procedures. The woman getting the AKA had
gotten a BKA in the field where she was recovered from under rubble.
Her stump, etc was badly infected and she was septic. They stayed with
her all night, but she did not make it.

The team was busy all night with post-op care. They did not have foleys
so straight-cath'd and tried to make foleys out of iv tubing - but they kept
backing up. Today, they received some Foleys from the main hospital.

They still have no x-ray but may be getting a c-arm donated from
somewhere in Texas... waiting to hear tomorrow.

They are hoping to slowly transform this mission's clinic into a high-quality
hospital for the area.
The 55 acre complex is the Mission of Hope for Haiti - started by a guy
named Brad Johnson, who lives there with his family." Their story is on
http://www.mohhaiti.org/