By emma bajardi | Project coordinator
Dear NPH friends and family,
We have rapidly risen to 115 COVID beds, all full. We are totally saturated.
We announced publicly we cannot receive any more patients until further notice.
Many people are dying on arrival in ambulances, that could find no center to take them.
Here is a huge blow to our ability to meet our emergency budget: we will be paying 80% more for oxygen starting today.
It seems world markets have driven prices up. We will likely pay $22 per refill instead of $12.
With 115 patients, about 100 need oxygen from tanks and the rest from bedside oxygen concentrators.
We produce oxygen, but only 40 tanks per day for ICU and ER- we cannot divert these tanks to COVID.
The price increase could not have happened at a worse time.
We can either reduce the hospital, or double the fundraising.
The first option is not humane, and the second is not at all easy.
We trust, as always, that our friends all over the world will help us meet the challenges.
You are well aware in your own neighborhoods of the tragic effects of this illness.
Thanks to all of you who have given in a small or mighty way to our oxygen appeal.
Thanks for any more you might be able to do, as we face both high volumes and price increases as mentioned.
We so appreciate your friendship, solidarity, help, as we do our best to carry on.
Fr Rick Frechette CP DO
Port au Prince, June 1 2021
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