An emergency responder and Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical student carry a Haitian survivor between treatment areas at a field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
By Joshua Runyan
As thousands of earthquake survivors poured out of Port-au-Prince and relief workers focused their attentions on speeding up food delivery, shoring up distribution stations and continuing apace the grim task of body recovery, a team from a Dominican Republic Jewish center convoyed into Haiti on Monday to hand out food and water to desperate locals and assist efforts at a field hospital.
The hospital, located at a soccer field in the Haitian capital by a unit from the Israel Defense Force’s Home Front Command, has reported a string of good news since opening on Saturday. A total of 200 earthquake victims have been treated, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 39 of whom underwent life-saving surgeries. Although the IDF listed five deaths, a labor-and-delivery tent at the hospital saw the births of three babies, including one tiny newborn whose mother named him Israel.
Joyce Oxfeld wrote...