Haiti Mission

Residents in the village of Thibeaut, near Milot, Haiti, wait to receive medical assessments from USD students, faculty and nurses from the Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Residents in the village of Thibeaut, near Milot, Haiti, wait to receive medical assessments from USD students, faculty and nurses from the Hopital Sacre Coeur.

MaryCarol Reeder, RN, left, tests blood pressure for Jean Lomsina, 102, in a village near Milot, Haiti. Her blood pressure was normal; she'd never been to a doctor, she said.

MaryCarol Reeder, RN, left, tests blood pressure for Jean Lomsina, 102, in a village near Milot, Haiti. Her blood pressure was normal; she'd never been to a doctor, she said.

MaryCarol Reeder, RN, left, tests blood pressure for Jean Lomsina, 102, in a village near Milot, Haiti. Her blood pressure was normal; she'd never been to a doctor, she said.

A two-year-old boy, emaciated, with a stomach tumor, is comforted by his mother in the back of an army tent that serves as the emergency room at Hopital Sacre Coeur.

A two-year-old boy, emaciated, with a stomach tumor, is comforted by his mother in the back of an army tent that serves as the emergency room at Hopital Sacre Coeur.

A two-year-old boy, emaciated, with a stomach tumor, is comforted by his mother in the back of an army tent that serves as the emergency room at Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Derrick Duarte cleans a wound where he and local surgeon Dr. Braima Sisse took a biopsy from a fiariasis patient in the "spill-over" clinical tent at Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Derrick Duarte cleans a wound where he and local surgeon Dr. Braima Sisse took a biopsy from a fiariasis patient in the "spill-over" clinical tent at Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Derrick Duarte cleans a wound where he and local surgeon Dr. Braima Sisse took a biopsy from a fiariasis patient in the "spill-over" clinical tent at Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Yniole Charles, 39, gives birth to her third child, a healthy 8-pound girl, delivered by nurse Tanya Paul at Hopital Sacre Coeur, with two USD students, Amanda O'Keefe and Sarah Moore, assisting.

Yniole Charles, 39, gives birth to her third child, a healthy 8-pound girl, delivered by nurse Tanya Paul at Hopital Sacre Coeur, with two USD students, Amanda O'Keefe and Sarah Moore, assisting.

Yniole Charles, 39, gives birth to her third child, a healthy 8-pound girl, delivered by nurse Tanya Paul at Hopital Sacre Coeur, with two USD students, Amanda O'Keefe and Sarah Moore, assisting.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain leading to the Citadelle Laferriere have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain leading to the Citadelle Laferriere have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain leading to the Citadelle Laferriere have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain leading to the Citadelle Laferriere have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain leading to the Citadelle Laferriere have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain leading to the Citadelle Laferriere have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain past the Palace Sans-Souci play in the tall grass. Their families have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain past the Palace Sans-Souci play in the tall grass. Their families have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain past the Palace Sans-Souci play in the tall grass. Their families have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.

Matthew Jean waits to be seen by a doctor in a medical ward at Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Patient Matthew Jean waits to be seen by a doctor in a medical ward at Hopital Sacre Coeur. Patients must purchase their own medications, including Tylenol and IV fluids. There are no pain medications for patients, so they must endure more than just the

Matthew Jean waits to be seen by a doctor in a medical ward at Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Stacey Price, RN, tends to a young woman with a necrotizing fasciitis in a ward at the Hopital Sacre Coeur. The woman's family had stopped coming to see her and bringing her food because they figured she would die.

Stacey Price, RN, tends to a young woman with a necrotizing fasciitis in a ward at the Hopital Sacre Coeur. The woman's family had stopped coming to see her and bringing her food because they figured she would die.

Stacey Price, RN, tends to a young woman with a necrotizing fasciitis in a ward at the Hopital Sacre Coeur. The woman's family had stopped coming to see her and bringing her food because they figured she would die.

Madelin Inocent, 4, is treated for severe burns by a team of USD students, nurses, and Dr. Braima Sisse, left, originally from Guinea Bissau, at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.

Madelin Inocent, 4, is treated for severe burns by a team of USD students, nurses, and Dr. Braima Sisse, left, originally from Guinea Bissau, at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.

Madelin Inocent, 4, is treated for severe burns by a team of USD students, nurses, and Dr. Braima Sisse, left, originally from Guinea Bissau, at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.

Residents in the village of Thibeaut, near Milot, Haiti, receive medical  assessments.

Residents in the village of Thibeaut, near Milot, Haiti, receive medical assessments from USD students, faculty and nurses from the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.

Residents in the village of Thibeaut, near Milot, Haiti, receive medical assessments.

An open trench collects garbage as it passes in front of homes up the street from Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.

An open trench collects garbage as it passes in front of homes up the street from Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.

An open trench collects garbage as it passes in front of homes up the street from Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.

Family members of patients at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, can wash clothes and cook in the back area behind the hospital.

Family members of patients at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, can wash clothes and cook in the back area behind the hospital.

Family members of patients at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, can wash clothes and cook in the back area behind the hospital.

Across from the hospital is a mural on the wall depicting the hospital's role in treating victims of the earthquake two years ago.

Across from the hospital is a mural on the wall depicting the hospital's role in treating victims of the earthquake two years ago.

Across from the hospital is a mural on the wall depicting the hospital's role in treating victims of the earthquake two years ago.

Maxis Moselaire, a Haitian medical technician, leads a gurney transporting a patient from the emergency room tent to the hospital.

Maxis Moselaire, a Haitian medical technician, leads a gurney transporting a patient from the emergency room tent over to the hospital across the street.

Maxis Moselaire, a Haitian medical technician, leads a gurney transporting a patient from the emergency room tent to the hospital.

A young girl named Linda uses the bucket beside her bed, frequently, as do all the other cholera patients in the cholera tent across the street from Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti. Cholera was imported to Haiti in October 2010 by a peacekeeper infected with it.

A young girl named Linda uses the bucket beside her bed, frequently, as do all the other cholera patients in the cholera tent across the street from Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti. Cholera was imported to Haiti in October 2010 by a peacekeeper infect

A young girl named Linda uses the bucket beside her bed, frequently, as do all the other cholera patients in the cholera tent across the street from Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti. Cholera was imported to Haiti in October 2010 by a peacekeeper infected with it.

Seclair Elmany, 9, left, Cleanyanta Lendor, 89, and her older cousin Jean Lomsina, 102, were some of the  residents in the village of Thibeaut who received medical  assessments from USD students, faculty and nurses from the Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Seclair Elmany, 9, left, Cleanyanta Lendor, 89, and her older cousin Jean Lomsina, 102, were some of the residents in the village of Thibeaut who received medical assessments from USD students, faculty and nurses from the Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Seclair Elmany, 9, left, Cleanyanta Lendor, 89, and her older cousin Jean Lomsina, 102, were some of the residents in the village of Thibeaut who received medical assessments from USD students, faculty and nurses from the Hopital Sacre Coeur.

Nurses in the pediatric NICU took turns holding a premature baby boy who weighed less than two pounds and was abandonded by his mother. The baby was going to be adopted when he was healthy enough.

Nurses in the pediatric NICU took turns holding a premature baby boy who weighed less than two pounds and was abandonded by his mother. The baby was going to be adopted when he was healthy enough.

Nurses in the pediatric NICU took turns holding a premature baby boy who weighed less than two pounds and was abandonded by his mother. The baby was going to be adopted when he was healthy enough.

  • Residents in the village of Thibeaut, near Milot, Haiti, wait to receive medical assessments from USD students, faculty and nurses from the Hopital Sacre Coeur.
  • MaryCarol Reeder, RN, left, tests blood pressure for Jean Lomsina, 102, in a village near Milot, Haiti. Her blood pressure was normal; she'd never been to a doctor, she said.
  • A two-year-old boy, emaciated, with a stomach tumor, is comforted by his mother in the back of an army tent that serves as the emergency room at Hopital Sacre Coeur.
  • Derrick Duarte cleans a wound where he and local surgeon Dr. Braima Sisse took a biopsy from a fiariasis patient in the "spill-over" clinical tent at Hopital Sacre Coeur.
  • Yniole Charles, 39, gives birth to her third child, a healthy 8-pound girl, delivered by nurse Tanya Paul at Hopital Sacre Coeur, with two USD students, Amanda O'Keefe and Sarah Moore, assisting.
  • Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain leading to the Citadelle Laferriere have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.
  • Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain leading to the Citadelle Laferriere have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.
  • Outside the village of Milot, Haiti, residents on the cobblestone route up a mountain past the Palace Sans-Souci play in the tall grass. Their families have to carry water and food up the mountain, and there is no sanitation system or clean water source.
  • Matthew Jean waits to be seen by a doctor in a medical ward at Hopital Sacre Coeur.
  • Stacey Price, RN, tends to a young woman with a necrotizing fasciitis in a ward at the Hopital Sacre Coeur. The woman's family had stopped coming to see her and bringing her food because they figured she would die.
  • Madelin Inocent, 4, is treated for severe burns by a team of USD students, nurses, and Dr. Braima Sisse, left, originally from Guinea Bissau, at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.
  • Residents in the village of Thibeaut, near Milot, Haiti, receive medical  assessments.
  • An open trench collects garbage as it passes in front of homes up the street from Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti.
  • Family members of patients at the Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, can wash clothes and cook in the back area behind the hospital.
  • Across from the hospital is a mural on the wall depicting the hospital's role in treating victims of the earthquake two years ago.
  • Maxis Moselaire, a Haitian medical technician, leads a gurney transporting a patient from the emergency room tent to the hospital.
  • A young girl named Linda uses the bucket beside her bed, frequently, as do all the other cholera patients in the cholera tent across the street from Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti. Cholera was imported to Haiti in October 2010 by a peacekeeper infected with it.
  • Seclair Elmany, 9, left, Cleanyanta Lendor, 89, and her older cousin Jean Lomsina, 102, were some of the  residents in the village of Thibeaut who received medical  assessments from USD students, faculty and nurses from the Hopital Sacre Coeur.
  • Nurses in the pediatric NICU took turns holding a premature baby boy who weighed less than two pounds and was abandonded by his mother. The baby was going to be adopted when he was healthy enough.

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