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Local doctors could help 5,000 Haitians
Haiti Needs You going to country ASAP
Updated: Wednesday, 20 Jan 2010, 6:49 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 20 Jan 2010, 5:17 PM EST
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Several West Michigan organizations have been active in helping Haitian victims after last week's earthquake. More than 65,000 people are believed to be dead, and many more are injured and need medical attention.
Haiti Needs You plans to send more than 12 people to Haiti on Thursday, even if the group has to charter its own jet.
The team has had a medical trip to Haiti planned since last year, but since the earthquake hit, it has recruited more medical professionals to deal with the high number of trauma cases that group members expect to see.
The group will hold a clinic and expects to offer medical services to between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
Even after Wednesday's 6.1 magnitude aftershock and the dangers the group faces in the aftermath of the quake, the team is not discouraged, but even more determined to help Haiti.
"Every piece of information we hear out of there indicates that we're needed and the place that we're going is getting desperate,"
said Mary Laponsie, a team member. "They're running out of supplies (and) the one doctor who's there is exhausted."
Amway offered to take the group on one of the company's jets, but Amway wasn't able to get a time to land Wednesday, so Haiti Needs You may have to charter a jet out of Miami and head to Haiti on Thursday.
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