Haiti - Day 8

The volunteer efforts are both physically and emotionally draining on the members of the Utah Hospital Task Force. Many of the group are fighting flu symptoms as an unknown illness is making its way around the camp. Two doctors were flown back to Miami with symptoms of meningitis. Luckily, Kim has yet to be affected, which means she has been busy playing nurse to her own teammates. She expressed some of the personal struggles that she faces as some patients are turned away because demand exceeds the supply of medical personnel, and the conditions that she is often faced with. Malnutritioned children wasting away, and patients suffering through the final stages of HIV infection. Their bodies, much like the buildings in Port-au-Prince, are failing, crashing, and are for the most part, destroyed. Unlike the structures that were used for home and work by many, there is no hope of their bodies being rebuilt, but yet they stay positive. Despite the adversity, the Haitians are constantly praising Jesus, God, and rarely ever complain. Like the Haitians, the group tries to remain positive.