UM: Haiti

Sacha Montas, a physician with the UM Health System, files a first-person account of his work in the Dominican Republic, where he’s treating Haitian refugees who are victims of the recent earthquake: “I’m with a team of eight people. We wake at 3:20 a.m. daily to get on the bus by 4 a.m. for 2.5 hour trip back to the hospital every morning. We start rounding by 6:30 a.m. in three teams, including one Haitian medical student who can translate. The Haitian medical student and I are the only ones in the hospital who can translate for the 150-200 patients we must round to every day.” [Source]