19 January 2010 - One week after Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake, Baltimore-based World Relief is providing urgent medical care and feeding hundreds of survivors in Port-au-Prince. The relief agency is running several feeding centers in partnership with local churches –providing hot meals every day for hundreds of quake victims, desperate for food and water. In the next few days, World Relief will expand its hot meal network in the capital, and distribute tarps for emergency shelter.

The agency’s country director, Dr. Hubert Morquette, and Dr. Esther Gwan, from World Relief’s headquarters in Baltimore, continue to treat scores of injured around-the-clock at King’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince – one of the few medical facilities still functioning after last week’s quake. World Relief and its partners have set up three operating theaters, staffed by American surgeons, doctors and nurses, at the 300-bed hospital.

"We have treated hundreds of injuries as well as countless open and closed fractures, ”Dr. Morquette said. We work all day and late into the night as patients continue to flock to our facility. World Relief’s Disaster Response team plans to drill a bore hole at King’s Hospital to supply clean water for patients and staff. For 15 years, World Relief has worked alongside churches to combat AIDS, care for vulnerable children and their mothers, and create economic opportunities in the poorest nation in the western hemisphere.

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