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CRUDEM board members rotated to Milot on a weekly basis,
providing medical and organizational assistance where
needed. When William Guyol, Jr., M.D., arrived at Hôpital Sacré
Coeur from St. Louis on January 28th, with a team of twelve,
he reported back to colleagues on the board: “Greetings from
Milot, Haiti! We arrived at the CRUDEM compound today. It is
like coming home, but different this time. The hospital and the
town have been transformed. The people here are exhausted;
happy to see reinforcements. Most work 16-20 hour days,
missing their meals, showers, beds. What they did here was
extraordinary. I cannot describe how valiantly this organization
has responded to this crisis. The number of people who
dropped all job and family responsibilities and rushed to Haiti
restores my faith in mankind’s capacity to love. This was a war
- chaotic, bloody, full of human misery, stoicism, inconsolable
loss and heroic virtue.”
The number of
people who dropped
all job and family
responsibilities and
rushed to Haiti restores
my faith in mankind’s
capacity to love.