A few days ago we were tested, and it showed that Carolien and I are positive for Covid. No nice beginning for a newsletter, but I will keep it short, as fatigue, tiredness, pains and fever are constantly rising. Thank God we can breathe more or less normally, and we don't have much cough.
I was just describing last night how unfairly the Haitians were treated by their Dominican neighbours, on the same island, where the famous beaches are for the tourists. They were sent back to the uttermost poor Haitian mountains where we work, without anything to survive on but loaded with masses of the virus, while their bodies have no immunity through lack of food since the lockdown began.
There is also no clinic, doctor, pharmacy, masks, testing or treatment in the mountainous Haitian regions, and still less money.
We are grateful that we could buy enough protective material through some personal actions, gifts and a donation from a Belgian city to help Bolivia a little. This way we could set up a "Mobile Doctors On Mission Medical Corona" outreach in no time, to go and help the most isolated Andes and Amazon teams there.
We know that statistics don't mean anything in this region. People live and die, but only rarely is the reason obvious if you have no doctors to confirm it. We do know that these days a lot of our dear medical personnel are on the line. Some have already died.
There is also no help whatsoever from the government. We will ask you to please help us and our teams, as we need to move on. There is no way back.
