Poor little lamb. Se will never want to be in the dark again - You look at that little face an you just want to take her your arms and rock her for hours, telling her it's all right now.
Posted on 01/19/2010 11:18:12 AM PST by alj770
Six-year-old Jessica Hartelin wasn’t moving late Monday night when she was rushed into the Port-au-Prince stadium where IsraAID/FIRST medics had set up their clinic. The little girl had been pulled from the rubble six days after a building collapsed on top of her in the massive earthquake that shook the capital of Haiti to its knees.
Alan Schneider, a member of the IsraAid emergency medical team and director of the B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem, said local volunteers had managed to pull the child out and rushed her to the Israeli team for treatment. Noticing the rush of people coming towards the stadium, Schneider quickly called to his team to clear one of the tables from the patients who were being treated with less urgent injuries. “She was completely motionless, only her eyes were moving, looking at the people around her,” Schneider related in an exclusive email interview with Israel National News.
“She immediately received two IVs, then some drops of water from a syringe and later a toffee candy that she chewed slowly," he continued. "She began to respond to questions and was able to move her legs a bit when asked by the doctors and nurses.”
“It struck me that her little ponytails with white elastic bands were all perfectly intact when she was brought to us.”
Schneider added that it had taken the volunteers about 15 minutes to bring the child from the rescue site to the clinic set up by IsraAID/FIRST; once she was stabilized, his team moved her again to the IDF field hospital on the other side of town. That took another 45 minutes, partly due to the distance and partly due to the complexities of traveling through the nearly-destroyed city.
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God bless Jessica! May she have a great life ahead of here and Thank you Israel for being there and caring. Israel and the United States are the two countries you can count on to help in a time of need.
Where is the Wealthy Arab and Islamic nations?
Prayers for that child & the people.
DITTO !
Poor little lamb. Se will never want to be in the dark again - You look at that little face an you just want to take her your arms and rock her for hours, telling her it's all right now.
Paper tigers. I've done some reading on the Saudi and Egyptian armed forces, and apparently all the fancy F-16s and M1 tanks that we sell them end up in gross disrepair, plus their forces are horribly undisciplined. Still, it would be nice if they did SOMETHING.
>> Where is the Wealthy Arab and Islamic nations? <<
Their charity only goes to support crazy people who want to kill us....
>> Where is the Wealthy Arab and Islamic nations?
Paper tigers. I’ve done some reading on the Saudi and Egyptian armed forces, and apparently all the fancy F-16s and M1 tanks that we sell them end up in gross disrepair, plus their forces are horribly undisciplined. Still, it would be nice if they did SOMETHING. <<
Explains the 7 day war quite nicely.
I saw the cresent and star on uniforms with Blue UN helmets shooting rubber bullets at the Haitians.
Just makes my keyboard wet...
God Bless you Israel...
I keep reading about the infancy mortality rate in this country and the way children are “dumped” at orphanages...I pray these children being saved have a chance, I fear for all of them. God bless Israel!
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