Infant Mortality Rate

Yesterday we examined a toddler with
Kwashiorkor malnutrition. She had an
enlarged liver and was very listless.
Today we arrived at the hospital only
to learn the she had been admitted to
the hospital during the night with high
fever. When we examined her at the
hospital she was seizuring and her temp
was very high. "Very slowly" she
received Tylenol, valium, an IV and
Ampicillin....however most often these
children have been malnurished too long
to fight infections. She died over the
noon hour. Sister Sophie, Colleen,
Donna and I took her body to the
Sisters of Charity for burial. In a
short three days we have already been
exposed to the realities of high
mortality rates in children in Haiti.