The Hospital

From what Jake and I were told, the hospital has undergone a transformation in less than a year. They are working very hard to have it finished. We slept at the hospital Tues., Wed., and Thursday. We woke up each morning to livestock, specifically a rooster that would crow around 4 am and then the goats would start shortly thereafter. They were tied up right behind the hospital. At one point there were baby goats right outside the doctor's windows. There is no such thing as OSHA in Haiti. Even though they cleaned the hospital, due to the gates and open windows there is a lot of dirt on the floors. Babies don't wear diapers so when they would pee, they would pee on the floor...and usually that was not cleaned up...so it was dried pee on top of dried pee, on top of dirt on the tile floor. Thanks to a donation of wipes used in the medical field, we were able to wipe stuff down and as ridiculous as others may have thought, I wiped the waiting chairs down every evening. People would come to the hospital dressed in their "Sunday best." Coming to a hospital was a big deal and they would wait several hours to be seen...only one person complained and an interpreter told her that she is called a patient because she needs to be patient.