The below knee amputee I'm seeing today is from Port Au Prince; she is 19 yo. She was coming home from school and a house fell on her. She was attending a prep school.
I'm also seeing an above-knee amputee today from Port Au Prince; she is 15 yo. She was at school watching tv with her mother and friend. No one made it out; they found her alive. She lost her mother and older brother. It's just her and her father left.
We will be fitting a bilateral above-knee, 4 above-knee patients, a below-knee and a below-knee/partial foot pediatric amputee this week.
I was told today there are over 100 amps at a nearby hospital. I have been making rounds with doctors in the morning. There are many more amputees waiting to heal at HAS and many small children injured (especially with burns).
The people here have a great spirit about them, always smiling and ready to greet you around every corner. It's not hard to pour everything and more out for people like this.
About Jay Tew, CP
- Hanger Ivan R. Sabel Foundation
- Deschapelles, Haiti
- Jaw Tew is a Hanger Clinic practice manager and recipient of the Hanger Excellence Award for Clinical Leadership. Additionally, Tew was awarded the Louisiana Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Louisiana National Guard’s highest civilian Medal of Honor for his service to wounded soldiers returning from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jay volunteered to serve a three-month term at HAS as lead prosthetist for the Coalition's patient care delivery. He arrived February 22, 2010 and lead the team that fit 350+ amputees with prosthetic limbs and orthotic braces before his rotation ended May 31, 2010. He has since served several other terms as lead prosthetist at the clinic in Haiti.
