In the meantime, Jean was working with the Church World Service (CWS) office and the Haitian government to set up our project. We never did get the TB project started so I spent my time working in Le Bon Samaritan hospital in the north and Jean ran a clinic on the south coast.
By early October, I had become familiar enough with the laboratory that I could actually be a help to Doctor Bob. He was the only American doctor in the area so the waiting room in Le Bon Sam always had more patients than Bob could see in one day. Jean was also working at the hospital when Hurricane Flora tore up Haiti’s southern peninsula. Jean and I both thought we should go to the capital in Port-au-Prince to volunteer to help. Jerry, chief of the CWS office and our project director, sent us to a missionary compound in Les Cayes. We spent three weeks in the hills helping to run makeshift clinics set up in partially destroyed buildings. Following that time I returned to Limbe’ and Le Bon Sam while Jean stayed on to run the Brethren clinic at Jacmel.