The letter below was forwarded to David Acres, TN Disaster Relief Director and finally on to the remaining 5 crew members of the TN Disaster Relief Team, Crew 1. It's with great joy I share this letter with you and hope that it will inspire all who read it Thank you for your prayers, support and encouragement to TN Disaster Relief.
- Don Owen
Nolachucky Association Disaster Relief Director
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My name is Dell Ezell. I am a registered nurse at Henry County Medical Center in Paris, Tennessee. I recently returned from Haiti. Three other medical personnel from Paris accompanied me there from March 6th through March 13th to the tent hospital complex that has been established at the Port Au Prince airport by the University of Miami Global Initiative project. Some of the finest human beings I have ever come into contact with were there.
I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of the gentlemen that were in charge of the supply tent. They all had on t-shirts that read "Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief". These good old boys from my home state of Tennessee had built an incredible array of shelving with their own hands and had organized all of the donated medical supplies throughout this network on a computerized database that enabled all of the nurses and doctors to find what they needed to treat the patients. Whenever I needed anything for any of my patients in the intensive care unit, all I had to do was walk in and they got everything I needed and more.
All of the patients in this field hospital were on simple cots. Many of them, such as those that I had on ventilators, needed to have the head of their cots elevated. The volunteers from the Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief took on this project and made wedges out of cardboard to not only accommodate all of the ICU cots, but all of the cots in the whole hospital. They worked longer hours than I did ( and I worked 12 to 14 hour days while I was there ). Not one time did I ever hear one complaint - instead, all they ever wanted to know was what else could they do to help get any job done.
The temperature in the big tent that they operated in exceeded 100 degrees most days that I was there, but I never saw any of them sitting down. It has taken me a week to get around to writing this letter, but I just wanted someone on this end to know what an invaluable service those guys provided and how proud I am of those guys. I am a member of the First Baptist Church in Huntingdon, Tennessee and I plan to share with Fred Ward, the pastor how proud I am of the life changing and life saving services that are being administered through the Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief team there at the airport hospital in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Please pass on my heart felt thanks to all those guys that worked in the supply tent there. They are the greatest.
Sincerely,
James (Dell) Ezell, RN
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