The following reflection is from Steve James, one of CBF’s field personnel in Haiti.
“My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?” Psalm 22:1
Too broken, too little, too late. We had not been at the earthquake-destroyed Christianville clinic consulting injured people under the trees more than two hours, when a woman approached us with a one-year-old child in her arms. We found a gravely injured little child lapsing in an out of consciousness. Clinically, we diagnosed the likelihood of a fractured pelvis that had perforated the bladder or urethra and probably the bowel as well. The baby needed immediate IV resuscitation and emergency surgery. This was now the fourth day after the earthquake and the baby had not passed urine since his rescue from under his crushed home. Even with surgery, the risk of death would be significant. The staff at the clinic was struggling just to survive and could not care for such a gravely ill child at that moment. All medical supplies were still in the destroyed clinic. We had just sent our truck back to the north for supplies and truck repair. We had no way to transport this baby with IV fluids to a surgical hospital.


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