MOL on Google Maps
admin | October 26, 2011
Click here to see the MOL compound in Jolivert on Google Maps – zoom in and you can read MOL on the top of the building!
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Dr. Bob Fall 2011 Update
admin | October 26, 2011
So much has happened since my last report in April of this year, I hardly know where to begin. As I reported to you then, Vanessa and Tom Carpenter (AngelMissionsHaiti), having felt called to open a K-12 English Immersion school and home for children at Jolivert, moved into mine and Betty’s apartment there this summer along with five of their children for a trial immersion of their own into the culture and community of Jolivert. Some snags, but overall it was a good experience, and they went home ever more dedicated to carrying out their plans beginning in the near future.
They have already bitten the bullet by purchasing two acres of land joining our compound to the rear and plans are on for Boss Wilson to begin excavation and foundation work in the immediate future. A new access road is planned immediately to the north of our property as well.
My April trip included a tour of the new hospital at Bassin Bleu (on the site of their old crumbling and neglected clinic so inadequately operated by the Haitian Ministry of health over the past many years). What a delightful surprise! It seems a consortium involving three countries (Venezuela, Peru, and Cuba) have constructed a lovely little hospital complete with two operating rooms, an ER, lab, pharmacy, and x-ray (although the x-ray is, like ours, non-functional just now). More importantly, it is fully staffed by both Haitian and Cuban doctors and nurses, including general surgeons who are operating almost daily. And here’s the wonderful kicker to it all: their services are provided at NO CHARGE! Even limited amounts of medication are provided free by the pharmacy. What a boon to this desperately poor community; and only 5 kilometers from our clinic at Jolivert. Needless to say it has practically put our clinic out of business, since we are still required by the ministry to charge a small fee for both medicines and services, including lab. And it is only by doing so that we can continue to purchase needed meds for our pharmacy and to meet payroll of our thirty-plus employees each month.