Day 7- Is this a real country?

This woman thinks her foot is caused by Vodoo and wont let us treat her

Today we worked only 1/2 day. Amanda and I went back to DFO where we faced more vodoo. It starts becoming frustrating when those patients do not allow us to treat them due to fear of repercussions. Today I met a boy named Emanual. Emanual is 13 years old and his parents were killed in the quake. About a year ago Emanual was run over by a car and needs surgery on his back. He is in pain all the time and has no one to advocate for him and take care of him. I really had a heart for Emanual. I gave him some medicine for his pain and told him I would do whatever I could to help him. In the three hours we worked today, Amanda and I saw 90 patients. After we were finished we walked from DFO to Blanchard. It was a long walk but the island is so beautiful that I enjoyed every second of it, even in the blazing heat. That afternoon our new team arrived and we helped them get set up before our evening meal and meeting. At our meeting Gale begins to tell us all about her experience at the U.N. She said first of all she recieved an email saying the meeting was held in a tent and the email continued to say that if she could not find the tent it would be the one unmarked. (All of Haiti is full of unmarked tents haha) Well she was able to find it and as they drove up there were no security or metal detectors so they just went on in. Now in the meeting she says a guy starts it off by holding up this map telling everyone that all of Haiti looks covered medically on the map. So its obvious that no one goes out and really investigates because they would know all of the hospitals are shutting down. When a man in the crowd informs them of the closings of hospitals they tell those in the meeting that they are shutting down because Dr.s are not getting paid which I dont know who paid them before but they said that they need about 300-500 million dollars for Dr.s salaries and they need to be paid a certain percentage before April 12th otherwise the general hospitals will shut down. So she says a guy behind her raises his hand and asks how much Dr.s make and the guy running the meeting states he does not know but if he gets onto this website and finds out could he send him an email letting him know. What? Is this a joke? The meeting was completely unorganized and she said the kicker was as they left they had to go through security and medical detectors in order to get out. The head director of our area was at the meeting and had a magazine that states what needs to be done in order to be a licensed clinic but she had the copy that was from 3 years ago so when she sees a Dr. with the newest copy and askes if she could have a copy of it he states no that it was the last copy so the director doesnt even know what all needs to be done in order to run a licensed clinic. It was a huge laugh for the night and made absolutely no sense. You sadly begin to realize the lack of government and help for the people of Haiti.