• 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.

AA003 - May 2011 - Third Mission to Les Cayes, Haiti

Areas of Operation: Les Cayes, Haiti - L'Hopital Immaculee Conception and to Ile a Vache, 7 miles SE off the coast of Les Cayes

Objectives: Clinical Team insertion (2 MDs, 1 PA, 2 RNs, 1 NREMT-P), critical medical supply delivery, clinical care delivery over 4 days, educational offerings to Hatian healthcare providers, establishment of relations with the Methodist Guest House services, risk/needs assessment of the hospital and EMS capabilities, reconnaissance of of Ile a Vache for pediatric immunization needs

Accomplishments: Met all objectives

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