Praise the LORD!!!
This evening I watched the 60 Minutes bit on Haiti and the conditions the rescue efforts are being faced with. If anyone can watch this without being profoundly effected their heart has stopped beating or only beats for themselves.
They showed large frontend loaders scooping up human bodies and depositing them into dumptrucks, to be take away and buried in mass graces. Though inhuman in a sense, it is much needed to protect from the spread of disease. There is no electricity to run coolers for morgues or refrigerated trucks like those used after 9/11 or hurricane Katrina.
The doctors that they were following had brought most of what they thought they'd need, but were far from correct. They were having to preform surgery, using rusty instruments or basic hand tools a contractor would use. You heard me right, contractor tools. They had to amputate a child's leg using a common hacksaw, not the surgical type which can be thoroughly sterilized. They were having to use boiling water, which was very limited instead of alcohol, because they were down to two bottles of it. For lighting, they had headlamps on, instead of good overhead lighting normally used.
Needless to say, their efforts are being overshadowed by the enormous size of the task. I'm very thankful that they're there, but pray that better solutions can evolve from this tragedy. This is the intent of Vine of CHRIST Ministries and I'm praying that I'll be able to interview people such as these to develop a larger more efficient means of supplying relief to major disasters like this. This though will have to be undertaken in the future, the matter of taking care of this disaster must be taken care of first and foremost.
I pray that anyone whom reads this will pray and search their heart and do what they personally can to help the current relief efforts. Either by making a donation to a responsible relief organization or gathering the materials together and donating these. Every person on this planet should realize that someday in the future they too may be facing a disaster such as this and there will be people out there giving their all to assist them in every manor possible! So please, do what you can today, for tomorrow it may be you that is in need!!!
Showing posts with label Haiti disaster relief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haiti disaster relief. Show all posts
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Unable to go to Haiti so...
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