Haiti Earthquake Recon: A Photo Tour

Posted by Walt Vernon on April 09, 2010 at 7:38pm


4/7/10: The Team--Top from left: Walt Vernon, John Pappas; Bottom from left: Terry Dover, Eric MacFarlane, Mike Olson


4/7/10: HAS IT Department


4/7/10: HAS Biodigester--sewage effluent is digested and discharged into the lagoon. The water is safe and full of wildlife.


4/7/10: HAS Waiting Room


4/7/10: HAS Pediatric Outpatient Clinic


4/7/10: HAS from the corner diagonal to entrance. Library on left (note windows at right & windows & vents at left).


4/7/10: HAS Laundry Room


4/7/10: 40-year-old washing machine


4/7/10: This is the special procedures room, which used to be the OR. Note lights.


4/7/10: HAS OR Air Handler--A Visiting New York surgeon said, "At least it's cool in there."


4/7/10: The lone radiology room. This room was not entirely clean when we entered.


4/7/10: The darkroom. We recommend some serious fixes to this room.


4/7/10: Film storage in public corridor. Surgery is at end; lab on left after files. Note lights and people waiting for surgery.


4/7/10: Neonatial Intensive Care Unit


4/7/10: They have one sink for each of the two wings. Everyone uses these sinks; inconvenient for staff handwashing.


4/7/10: Nurses Station


4/7/10: This is the area between the patient wing and the annex. Laundry drying here is that of the families of the patients.


4/7/10: The OR. Note windows surrounding the area, which Pappas wants to replace with glass blocks to retain natural light.


4/7/10: Sterile Core, which was occupied every time we were there by next surgery patient and family. Scrubs not required.


4/7/10: This water tower provides the only clean water to the village.


4/7/10: One of the power lines serving the residential areas. Many of these are made of concrete.


4/7/10: The HAS roof is mainly concrete. The protrusions are 12" tall lightning protection points.


4/7/10: Water pumps and tank. That's John Pappas.


4/7/10: Biodigesters for HAS effluent.


4/7/10: After decomposition in the biodigesters, the effluent flows into these lagoons, which are home to many birds.


4/7/10: They burn medical waste in this building, using fouled diesel fuel.


4/7/10: The HAS diesel generators.


4/7/10: The HAS main switchboard.


4/7/10: The only gas HAS uses is bottled oxygen.


4/7/10: HAS outdoor adult outpatient clinic.


4/8/10: Salsa d'Haiti Airlines--Our plane to Port Haitian.


4/8/10: Market through which we drove.


4/8/10: John Pappas, newly beardless and sneaking in a conference call.

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By Walt Vernon on April 10, 2010

The caption for the bio-digester needs clarification; the effluent is digested and the water is pretty safe by the time ti gets discharged. The lagoon is full of wildlife.

The caption for the sink also needs clarification. There are two of these, but each one serves an entire wing, not two rooms.

By commercial roof maintenance on August 19, 2011

I don’t know what to say about the pictures, it’s kind of unsanitized place, is it a hospital or a carpentry place. Well, I think that place need to be cleaned and organized everything.

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