I just stopped by our partner organization's blog, and it reminded me of the immediate benefit of the 100 Beds for Haiti Campaign. Hopital Sacre Coeur still has over 300 patients and only 73 beds to care for these patients:
We still have 300 patients in Hopital Sacre Coeur and still have over 50 volunteers a week. Our staff continues to work without complaint and we are receiving calls from around Haiti to accept patients. The most recent was for a patient who had a cervical spine fracture that left him paralyzed on the left side. This patient was deaf and taught sign language so his injury was especially incapacitating. Only the spine surgeons at Hopital Sacre Coeur could give him a chance to recover his mobility. (Read the whole post here)
The 100 Beds for Haiti Campaign's soft launch is Thursday but there are patients right now who need not only our contributions but our actions immediately affect the outcome of people we may never have the opportunity to meet.
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