Cholera cases at the CAM La Source clinic keep winding down. Cases steadily declined from 40-50 per week to as low as 15 last week. Other parts of Haiti, however, continue to see an increase. A hospital in Bombard had a sudden upswing in the number of cholera patients...
Close to one year ago the disastrous earthquake struck Haiti, killing thousands of people and leaving millions homeless. Hope is still elusive for many of the Haitian people. First the earthquake, then political unrest, and now the cholera epidemic. Hope seems...
The following account is about real people, and was told by our staff as though speaking for Markendy, but we took writer’s liberties to put it in story form. Hello, my name is Markendy. I live in northwestern Haiti. One day I felt sick, very sick. I vomited several...
An unpleasant landmark happened at the CAM clinic in La Source this past week. They experienced their first deaths at the cholera hospital. Bethanie Burkholder isn’t sure of the causes of these deaths, but she thinks the deaths happened because the clinic couldn’t...
Last week the La Source clinic had a number of very intense cases—children with cholera. Getting IVs into severely dehydrated toddlers and preschoolers is an art mastered by few. But God came through again. When five-year-old Djonkly came into the clinic last Tuesday...
