DWB/MSF teleconference:
We have altogether around 800 medical staff working in Haiti. Thirty of those are international. We're currently putting rapid response plans into place based out of North America and out of Europe to have another 70 international staff available over the next few days with specialties to be able to respond to these more immediate emergency medical needs. Likewise, we're prepared now and have prepared freight, including an emergency inflatable hospital so we can set up exactly those services we're currently missing.Teams are basically managing what comes to them. There's very little possibility to get out and do more than that at the moment. Already teams are getting overwhelmed. We're strongly identified in Haiti with emergency medical care — even our coordination offices are becoming centers of influx for people in neighborhoods with severe trauma wounds. So even in our capital offices where we're trying to maintain contact with our teams they're struggling to manage quite high case loads of patients seeking medical care.
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and now Jump Around is stuck in my head.
Did you put your pants on backwards?
Huh. I didn't even know about Limnic Eruptions (sudden eruptions of CO2 from lakes that asphyxiate everything nearby).
House of Pain, not Kris Kross. I'm pretty sure Everlast did not wear his clothes backwards.
The news about Haiti just gets more horrifying. And as Hec said, it's a country that really didn't need any additional misery.
I would like to give Extras a shot, for the guest stars.
The Danielle Radcliffe episode is priceless. By far the best performance I've seen him give.
House of Pain, not Kris Kross. I'm pretty sure Everlast did not wear his clothes backwards.
But he served your ass like John McEnroe.
I had a weird episode of Jump Around in my head recently, too! Huh.
I can barely process the Haiti scope. PMM linked to this list of news and donation resources on LJ.
I didn't even know about Limnic Eruptions
I just read about one of those yesterday and I don't remember where--where did you see it?
this list of news and donation resources on LJ
Note: MSF/DWB does have a Haiti-specific donation page.
