Two SMS-based updates with their timestamps (eastern time which is also Haitian local time)

Anil Menon: So we made it to the border, easier by bus, be there in 1 hour, no travel by night, border hospital also over run. (2:51 AM)

Anil Menon: Made it into Haiti 48 hours later. Incredibly full hospitals with people sleeping on every street. Haven't slept yet (5:35 AM)

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Anil Menon, MD is a clinical instructor at Stanford School of Medicine focused on surgery and emergency medicine. His research interests are Aerospace Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Wilderness Medicine. He graduated from Stanford Med in 2006, received a degree in mechanical engineering in 2003 and became a full ER doctor in 2009. He has practiced medicin in combat in Afghanistan and will be practicing aerospace medicine next year at NASA. He's part of a team sent to Haiti by Stanford.

This entire series is chronicled under the HaitiDrDispatch tag

 

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