RELIEF CENTERS
**One Jehovah’s Witnesses assembly hall and 3 smaller kingdom were used as temporary clinic and medical centers. NOTE:
— According to JW Media “the Witnesses [assisted ] in caring for the medical needs of their fellow worshippers and others”
— they “cared for hundreds of patients, witness and non-witness alike. No one was turned away.” — Journalists Donald Elwell & Byron Smith, “Dominican Today” (online)
RELIEF SUPPLIES
**70 tons of food and equipment (including tents & clothing)
** 5,000 pounds of medicine and medical equipment
**70,076 daily food rations were supplied
MEDICAL TEAMS
** 24 French speaking doctors and nurses from Guadeloupe
**Two teams of Jehovah’s Witnesses medical professionals from France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States – including four general practitioners, two surgeons, four nurses, and a midwife
**55 emergency surgeries
