Our Nurses Return from Haiti
As part of our hospital’s ongoing effort to provide medical relief to victims of the earthquake in Haiti, 5 nurses from our hospital’s NICCU returned for a week-long stay from May 19th until June 5th.
See More Pics of our Nurses in Haiti…Click the Picture Below
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| (L to R) Kolette Sheppard, RN; Nhu Tran, RN; Leslie Hall, RN; Lori Bustamante, RN and Brooke Sanders, RN all sporting Children’s Hospital t-shirts while hard at work in Haiti. |
The nurses provided aid at the same Project Medishare hospital in Port-au-Prince our hospital staff visited earlier this year. A day after the devastating earthquake, a tent hospital was erected.
Leslie Hall, RN (the nurse in pink above) reported that the day after her group’s departure, the hospital was moved to a permanent building a few miles away. Here’s what she asked us to share with you:
We had many obstacles during the trip including extreme heat and rain that flooded the field hospital almost every day.
I was the only one from the group who had been to Haiti previously, so I was able to tell the rest of the members a little bit of what to expect. I was part of our hospital’s first group team #1 that went to Haiti from March 13th – March 20th.
We coordinated with Mary Dee Hacker, RN, MBA [Vice President, Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer] and central supply here at the hospital to send us with some needed supplies.
Thanks Leslie!
View a Flickr slideshow of our Nurses in Haiti!
I am so glad to see that CHLA is still actively participating in helping Haiti. CNN and Anderson Cooper are in Haiti now, 6 months later. The picture they paint is not a good one. Not enough doctors and nurses, not enough medical supplies, not enough shelter, food and the list goes on and on. Thank you CHLA and CHLA staff for your committment to Haiti.