Médecins Sans Frontières aka Doctors Without Borders is at http://www.msf.org/ and they now have my 2nd donation in less than a day.

There are aid agencies flying food and water in from all over the world, but the tens of thousands of injured people lying on the ground have no one to treat them and the few doctors and nurses on the scene are simply overwhelmed.

We watched a news report here tonight in Australia that said that the medical staff at the hospital is always, always too few for too many and the hospital’s Chief of Staff said that he usually had only 150 medical personnel to treat the island’s residents on the best of days. Right now he has less than 20 medical personnel.

It is sickening to hear some of the commentators and so-called ‘preachers’ in the USA and elsewhere mocking the gravity of this situation and making breathtakingly ignorant statements about why the people of Haiti should not be assisted. I, for one, consider them to be beneath contempt.

These are personal choices, but if your heart has been touched by the plight of the Haitian people, we should offer whatever help we can, freely and without hesitation, because it is the right thing to do — plain and simple. It’s one of those ‘just because’ moments in life that might literally mean the difference between life and death.