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Page 10A,The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Fire and Emergency Services Responds To 85 Calls Lee County Fire and Emergency Services responded to 85 calls during the week of 27 - February 2, 2019. EMS Responses EMS responded to three calls for abdomi nal pain/problems. EMS responded to one call for allergic reaction/ stmgs EMS responded to ten calls for breathing problems. EMS responded to two calls for burns/explo sion. EMS responded to four calls for chest pain (non- traumatic).. EMS responded to two calls for convulsions/ seizure. EMS responded to one call for diabetic problem. EMS responded to three calls for falls. EMS responded to three calls for fire standby. EMS responded to one call for hemorrhage/lac eration. EMS responded to one call for medical transfer. EMS responded to one call for psychiatric prob lem/abnormal behavior/ suicide attempt. EMS responded to 11 calls for sick person. EMS responded to one call for standby (other than fire). EMS responded to eight calls for traffic/ transportation incident. EMS responded to two calls for traumatic injury. EMS responded to two calls for unconscious/ fainting/near fainting. EMS responded to one call for well person check. EMS made 56 calls for the week. Fire Responses Fire department re sponded to one call for activated alarm. Fire department re sponded to one call for controlled burn. Fire department re sponded to one call for vehicle fire. Special to the Ledger by Gail Drake “Gail, I need a nurse for a medical team to Haiti in three weeks. A nurse cancelled because she got shingles.” It was my friend Sarah Bennett from South Carolina, calling two days after Christmas. “Sarah, Ed love to come to Haiti again, but you know I’m not a nurse, right?” “It’s just to take tem peratures, heart rate and check blood pressure. I’m sure you can learn how to do that. There’s an ER doctor coming from Flint, Michigan, a Brazilian nurse practitio ner coming from Cleve land, Ohio, along with her friend, and a Haitian doctor will also be there with his wife, a pharma cist. And another sweet girl from Texas who is a project manager for L’Oreal cosmetics—she will be acting as a nurse as well.” So after arranging for family care, book ing flights, buying and packing medical equip ment and other supplies, with passport in hand I boarded a plane for Port-au-Prince on Janu ary 18, 2019. Because the full flight landed at dusk, Sarah dispatched a driver named David and an armed guard, on loan from our Haitian Senator friend, Dieupe Cheribum. Fortunately this was not my first trip to this beautiful tropical but stunningly impoverished Caribbean nation. So after declining 25 offers to carry my luggage (for a small fee), driver, guard and nurse imper sonator started the trek through the streets teem ing with pedestrians, vendors hawking their wares, motorcycles with three or more passen gers, and covered pickup trucks called “Tap-taps” (because the 35 or so passengers tap the truck whenever they want to stop). We passed monu ments, stately colonial buildings with balconies and wrought iron, side by side with lean-to dwellings, and piles and piles of earthquake de bris and rubbish. Finally the twisting mostly- paved 3-hour road over the lush mountains to the beautiful seaside city of Jacmel. The next day Dr. Pat rick Hawley arrived with several suitcases stuffed with prescription medi cation that we proceeded to sort, count and bag into small pouches. The real nurse practitioner Renata and her friend Heather arrived, and Monday we were off for five days of medical clinics. Hosanna Minis tries has a large cen tral church, 17 outpost churches, 650 students at Fire department re sponded to ten calls for MVC. Fire department responded to 14 calls to assist EMS. Fire department re sponded to two miscel laneous call. the main school and 175 at two other schools, a seminary, radio station, and a beautiful ocean- front camp. We set up our free medical clinics in five outpost churches, with benches, nurse station, 3 doctors with transla tors, pharmacy table, all inside the one-room churches. In my broken French (from grow ing up in West Africa) I checked vitals and asked about complaints. In the evenings our fun- loving team held our nightly pharmacy party, counting and bagging thousands of antacids, antibiotics, vitamins, Tylenol, Advil and other meds. The first day in the lovely stone church at Bossier we treated 168 patients. As Haiti lacks many services that Americans take for granted, like safe water and sanitation, tropical diseases abound. Fungal infections, scabies, para sites, infections, along with common lifestyle diseases such as high blood pressure, diabe tes and HIV. Tuesday brought in 185 patients. Our energetic and savvy Haitian doctor, Sem Victorin, treated at least two patients for diabe tes, tying an IV bag to a window frame with rubber gloves with the patient lying on a church bench. We irrigated two young boys for earwax impactment that im paired their hearing. We treated numerous young patients for hyperten sion. My heart ached for the man with signs of advanced thyroid disease but no money to pay for necessary medi cation, which we did not have. The jaundice in his eyes betrayed his future. Wednesday was spent at lovely Mount Fleury, a remote mountain vil lage with one dysfunc tional well so water must be hand-carried from down the mountain. We Fire department re sponded to 29 fire calls during the week. Lee County Fire and Emergency Services re sponded to 85 calls dur ing the week of January 27 - February 2, 2019. treated 220 patients that day. (Which means that I and my sweet fellow fake nurse Leah each pumped 110 blood pres sure checks.) Our Bra zilian NP, beautiful and blunt Renata, patiently counseled about lifestyle diseases. Pharmacist Esther eyeballed each patient while hand ing out free medicine, explaining the exact protocols for each. Quiet and reliable Heather, who owns an online book com pany, served as pharmacy tech. Thursday we forged the rocky river bed in our truck, crossed sev eral flooded dirt roads, through banana farms and plantain groves, up the gravel mountain roads to La Montague. Many elderly villagers appeared, bent and in pain after years of a hard life living off the rain depleted land. On Friday we forged the river again to Lavaneau, where three cement buildings replaced the poles-and- palm-fronds church I visited eight years ago. Many mothers arrived with small children, some with common ail ments and others not so common. More scabies and rashes, wounds and infections. A toddler with club foot. Burns on mouths and feet. It was “screaming baby day” for poor Dr. Pat, and Dr. Sem treated and stitched several wounds. We treated 185 that day, for a weekly total of 905 patients - at least. What a privilege for this nurse impersonator to be a part of an amaz ing team that brought relief and care to “the least of these.” There is no greater joy than shar ing a “cold cup of water in My name,” or in this case, direly needed medical care, to those in greatest need. Gail Drake practices probate, mediation and children’s law in Lee County, GA. LIFE INSURANCE THE LASTTHING YOU NEED FARMERS IS SOMETHING ELSETO LOSE SLEEP OVER INSURANCE Sleep deprivation can make you forgetful enough to miss one of the most important steps of being a parent: getting Life insurance. 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