Apparently, the treatment facilities are crude at best with medical teams, working in make-shift operating rooms with a shortage of medical personnel and supplies.

Dr. Hyman writes, "The smell and taste and vision of the sea of dead rotting bodies was something unimaginable, beyond horror - a vast and sick landscape of death after only 15 seconds of earthshaking.

Then we emptied the trucks and sorted the surgical supplies into the operating rooms and triaged the patients with headlamps -- attending to the sickest, those needing amputations, deciding who would be first in the morning as the light came up. We hoped for water, electricity and more supplies to help us save the wounded but there are none here at the hospital yet - perhaps they are still at the airport or circling over this island of people with the biggest and most patient hearts I have known.

Tomorrow we will start the first surgery here after the earthquake. The first amputation with nothing but a hacksaw and headlamps and a bottle of vodka to sterilize the equipment and a few rusty instruments to start. But we will do it because it has to be done and there is no one or no where else to do it.

Dr. Hyman had planned to report back via Twitter and Facebook, but since communication is limited due to power outages, lack of cell service, and limited satellite phone battery power, I will update this to report as to whether they will be able to report back, as they had hoped to.

You're warmly invited to extend your support, love, and blessings to Mark, Pier, their colleagues, and the people they are so valiantly serving.

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