Whew... one thing is for sure. Anything you thought you knew was for sure will change. Great news! We postponed take off until tomorrow for the reason of lack of local ground transportation, bad news? Nope. Late this morning we received an incredible donation from a local hospital of over $11,000 dollars of medical supplies, almost literally a ton of supplies. And more great news we got an upgrade. Our wonderful local company who was supplying us with a Falcon 10 has been able to acquire for us a Falcon 50! A much larger and capable plane to carry our supplies. That being said... we still need more supplies, specifically IV kits, suture kits, sterile drapes, and antibiotics, lots of antibiotics. This kind of stuff is not easy for the average person to get your hands on, but if you can or if you know someone that can, let us know ASAP. If you are local we will come get it. We also have a line some antibiotics at a wholesale price, and that's where you can help. Donations are a good way for you to personally make a difference.
Our ground transportation issues has been solved as well. I spoke with our contact doctor in the Dominican and he has procured transportation to the hospital for our supplies. We are also going to get some feel for the actual conditions on the ground in order to determine whether or not it is safe to bring our medical teams in. Safety first.
We have also gotten all the necessary flight clearances to get into the restricted airspace surrounding Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Looks like all systems go for early morning departure tomorrow.
As a last note, if may be possible to evacuate Americans that need extraction. If you know of a connection to accomplish this please email me.
Sean.
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