A Child's Story - Nosolivié of Haiti
POSTED ON Jan 20, 2010 / UPDATED ON Jan 27, 2011
Nosolivié, age 6, stands with his new friend Willy, a Dominican soldier whom he’s befriended at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Jimani on Wednesday, Jan. 20. (Photo: Scott Cook)
Nosolivié sits with his mother in the recovery area—an outdoor chapel transformed—at the Good Samariten Hospital in Jimani. (Photo: Scott Cook)
Nosolivié, in recovery after being treated for a foot injury. (Photo: Scott Cook)
UPDATE: People have gathered in the shade of the trees at Love A Child orphanage in Haiti, where the UN will be soon setting up a refugee camp. Doctors are here to continue care for patients who are brought from Good Samaritan Hospital
Nosolivié stands proudly next to his new friend Willy, who is a Dominican soldier here at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Jimani. Nosolivié has made many friends here thanks to his six-year-old outgoing personality. He arrived on Sunday with his brother and mother looking for medical help for his injuries.
When Nosolivié was running out of his home during the earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday, a wall fell on him and injured his foot. By the time the family made it here, his five-day-old, open flesh wound was an ugly mess and in danger of being infected. Though their family is thankfully together here at Good Samaritan Hospital and after treatment, Nosolivié is healing well, the question is where will they go from here?
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* * UPDATE * * Friday, January 22, 2010
Just across the border from Jimani in Haiti – COTN–USA staff member EriK Nield accompanied the COTN bus yesterday on its second trip to take stable patients from the Good Samaritan Hospital in Jimani to Love A Child orphanage across the border in Haiti where the UN is planning to set up a refugee camp. (* Nosolivíe and his family were among those transported here. He is in a green shirt on the left). Once the people were settled there, COTN dropped off some of the boxes of food and water to certain areas in Haiti where people were in desperate need of nourishment. COTN founder Chris Clark also drove into Haiti yesterday with the hopes of bringing back intensive care patients to Good Samaritan Hospital on the COTN bus. Though Chris and other COTN staff did not bring back patients yesterday, they established a connection to let people know that the opportunity was there for patients in need. The connection caused for an open door to help today.