• A broken x-ray machine in great need of repair.

  • The Chief Engineer for the hospital in Les Cayes.

  • Members of the ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE team help unload oxygen at the hospital in Les Cayes.

  • A patient's injured hand, that requires surgery.

  • ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jean Hibbert, examines a patient's infected hand.

  • A physician on the ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE medical team examines radiographs at the hospital in Les Cayes.

  • The medical records room at the hospital in Les Cayes.

  • The hospital dispensary. Patients cannot afford most of the medications needed, and medications themsevles are in short supply. As a result, the providers in many cases can only keep the patients comfortable, and are unable to treat them.

  • Members of the ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE team meet with the hospital's administrator and facilities manager.

  • Modest dwellings in Ile a Vache, a small island 7 miles off the coast, southeast of Les Cayes. This area has no formal medical facilities at all, and there is a great need for pediatric immunizations.

  • The morgue on the right, and the container where cholera 'waste' is burned, on the left.

  • Nurses attending to the sick and dying.

  • Haitian partners help unload medicines, medical supplies and equipment; that the ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE team then personally transported to the hospital in Les Cayes.

  • A sterlizer brought to the hospital by ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE is prepared for use in the Pediatric ward.

  • Surgery with no cardiac monitoring, no pulse oximetry, no blood pressure monitoring device. The hospital's request to ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE is to get this basic equipment.

  • The ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE team walking to the village in Ile a Vache.

  • An ultrasound machine the hospital that had no trained technician to operate it. A key facet of the ARCHANGEL AIRBORNE mission in Les Cayes is to provide education for the hospital's providers, in technologies such as this.

Mission 3, May 2011 Operation Les Cayes

Mission Team: Hirsch, Lovelace, Atwell, Bertolini, Desmond

Objectives: We returned to Les Cayes with a team of medical professionals, and operated clinics over a period of four days. We brought much needed medications, and assessed the capabilities and needs of the hospital there and the nearby island of Ile a Vache.

Accomplishments: Met all objectives

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