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re: Armed gang takes over hospital in Haiti
Posted on 11/15/23 at 5:28 pm to yaboidarrell
Posted on 11/15/23 at 5:28 pm to yaboidarrell
Unless you’ve been there, you cannot comprehend how poor and desolate that country is.
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Posted on 11/15/23 at 5:31 pm to okietiger
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Unless you’ve been there, you cannot comprehend how poor and desolate that country is.
true, and that's also true in many places in world, our ghetto, welfare state has NO idea of what real poverty is
ETA: we fly to Haiti, no over nights there though, we had a plane down there years back while an earthquake occurred, they were going to shut the airport down and evacuate it, the captain said frick that, made sure he had been fueled and just blasted off, he was not going to get stuck in Haiti
This post was edited on 11/15/23 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 11/15/23 at 5:38 pm to okietiger
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Unless you’ve been there, you cannot comprehend how poor and desolate that country is.
Posted on 11/15/23 at 6:17 pm to okietiger
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Unless you’ve been there, you cannot comprehend how poor and desolate that country is.
A good friend of mine served there while she was working for the UN. The poverty is heartbreaking.
Posted on 11/15/23 at 9:21 pm to okietiger
quote:My run in with Haitians was when I was stationed at Guantanamo Bay back in the mid-90's. My 2nd day there, I was told to man the front desk of the hospital with a couple of other Corpsmen. The Haitian civil war was in full swing, and we had about 10k refugees there that the Coast Guard and Navy had picked up. Clinton was trying to decide if he wanted to send them to CONUS. Apparently, tuberculosis is common in Haiti so we had to screen them for TB with a chest x-ray.
Unless you’ve been there, you cannot comprehend how poor and desolate that country is.
Before the first bus load pulled up, my CMC gave us some plastic basins to put behind the counter. We had no idea why, then we were told that a lot of them will put void there bladder and bowels in the hospital lobby, and if that were to happen, we should throw a basin underneath them! Luckily, that never came to fruition, but it sure opened my young eyes to the fact that I was naïve about the nature of the world we live in.
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