Another perspective:  

This is a post by our friend Anita. She is the nurse that took Denise and the pregnant women who died  to the hospital.

  Anita Martin

January 25 at 12:23pm ·

I only knew her for a few hours yesterday…….
A mother expecting her 2nd baby, from the remote mountains of Haiti. She started bleeding yesterday morning. Her family loaded her on a stretcher & brought her to my friend Denise\’s house. And this is how God works….. Denise & Bob do not have a truck, but she had called me about an hour before as she had a lady there with a earache & didn\’t have meds to give her. So I told her I would come & bring the right kind. So as I approach Denise\’s gate, a crowd was in the road with our expecting mother on the stretcher. They motioned me to stop & told me the situation, asking if I would take her to the hospital in Gros Morne. Of course I will & Denise joins us & we head for the hospital with her husband & a sister, plus a couple other family members. Oh how my heart goes out to my patient riding in the bed of the truck on a skinny stretcher with no padding, over bumpy, dusty mountain roads, I try to drive accordingly, knowing time is of the essence, but not wanting to cause undo pain. We arrive at the hospital, which is pretty modern. They start an IV only to be told there is no maternity Dr. available & she needs to be transferred to Goniave. It will cost $ 75 American dollars. ( the average Haitian makes $ 2 American dollars a day). I right away said I will take her. As she is laying in the exam room the nurse does a quick ultrasound & tells us there is no fetal heartbeat. The mother then calls to me & I go over to her. She moans & cry\’s out. I reassure her we are there & tell her that God cares & so do I. I then asked her if I could pray for her & she said yes. So I ask God to be with her & her baby, to give her peace & if not against his will to give them life.
We then load her back into the truck with her IV\’s & start our hour long journey to Goniave to a brand new hospital that specializes in maternity care. We arrive & she is taken to the appropriate area. Soon the nurse is at the door with a prescription, saying go & get this quickly. Here in Haiti , nothing is provided by the hospital. The family must go & get all medicine, supplies, needles, bedding, food etc… So we fly through the halls looking for the pharmacy, & when we find it only to be told they don\’t have what we need. Ok where do we get it? The reply is outside the hospital & down the road. So we hurry to the little green & white shack marked pharma & pay our 350 gds & receive 2 liters of IV fluids, tubing, & needles. ( In American money that is about $ 7.50. Away we hurry to the maternity ward. But it is too late……..
The nurse soon comes out & calls the husbands name….Rueben……& tells us she is gone……
I wish you could see this husbands grief….he quietly walks over to a secluded area, tears are rolling down his cheeks, he sinks down in udder grief & just cries. Later he stands & raises his arms & falls against the wall . My heart echo\’s his……Why God…..Why????

Why do so many in this world suffer, when so many others have the advantages of the world at their fingertips…….

Today I am grieving……
And pray for Rueben & his other child that don\’t have a wife & mother this morning.