AidWEST Medical Support Missions to Haiti, 2010 https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/ AidWEST Medical Support Missions to Haiti, 2010 AidWEST Founder John Elliott in Haiti John Elliott began working with earthquake victims with little medical experience, learned as he went along from doctors and nurses. He returned to the US to form an organization of first responders. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866072 76866072 AidWEST in Physical Therapy AidWEST volunteers Ellen Jones and Jamie Smith of Atlanta work at the Fond Parisienne IDP camp to provide much needed physical therapy to earthquake victims. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866060 76866060 AidWEST in Patient Transport AidWEST volunteers Stephanie Consie and Milinda Bell carefully move a patient from a gurney to the operating table, in an emergency hospital on the Haitian border with the Dominican Republic. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866062 76866062 AidWEST in Patient Care AidWEST volunteer Milinda Bell comforts a patient who is about to have his external fixator removed from a femur. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866063 76866063 AidWEST in O.R. Translation AidWEST team leader and director John Elliott reviews a C-Arm X-ray printout with Haitian patient Jean-Baptiste Luckson after successful surgery at an emergency hospital. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866064 76866064 AidWEST in Wound Care AidWEST founder John Elliott removes bandages from Haitian earthquake victim at an emergency hospital. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866061 76866061 AidWEST in Wound Care AidWEST founder John Elliott begins to debride a severe laceration on a Haitian earthquake victim at an emergency hospital. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866065 76866065 AidWEST in Emotional Recovery AidWEST worked with victims of all ages who were traumatized by the January earthquake and more than 250 major aftershocks, such as here in Port au Prince. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866066 76866066 Emotional Recovery at a Haitian Emergency Hospital Women and girls enjoy some relaxing and therapeudic primping. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866067 76866067 AidWEST in Disaster Recovery AidWEST was in Port au Prince, Haiti during the first two weeks following the devastating earthquake. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866068 76866068 AidWEST in Humanitarian Support Sitting by the sum total of worldly possessions, a Haitian girl appreciated the food delivered by AidWEST volunteers. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866069 76866069 AidWEST in Wound Care Earthquakes in third-world regions result in death or multiple injuries. Here, AidWEST founder John Elliott tends to the wounds of a young man at a Haitian emergency hospital. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866070 76866070 AidWEST in Wound Care This 11-year old boy had no knowledge of where his parents were or if they survived the earthquake. John Elliott of AidWEST carefully tends to his wounds, at a Haitian emergency hospital. https://www.imvc.org/apps/photos/photo?photoID=76866071 76866071