Most of our patients were housed in the "tents". We had several by the time I arrived there and were able to close one by the time I left. Each housed about 20-30 patients. The patients had cots that kept them off the ground, but that only came after a few weeks. In the first days after the earthquake they stayed on the ground.

"Spanish Tent" - named for the volunteers from Spain who staffed this tent
(and of course charted in spanish).

The tents were outfitted with makeshift nursing stations and power supplies.

Nursing Station

Novel Power Supply for Lamp

Desk for working on charts

Bathrooms consisted of portable outhouses. Patients had to be carried, often by family, to and from them.



Next up, the volunteer who made it all work.

BRK