Following is an update written Friday by ICC USA board member Dr. Jeannine Hatt, a pediatrician from Texas who traveled to Haiti with a team of doctors last week. She worked at Grace Children’s Hospital in conjunction with the Haitian staff to treat children affected by the earthquake.

 We have been in Haiti this week working at Grace Children's Hospital in the out-patient clinics. The in-patient unit is closed because the hospital was so damaged in the earthquake the children who have been abandoned are living under tarps on the lawn. Others have been discharged to their parents or transferred to other hospitals that were not so damaged and/or are functioning. GCH hopes to get a large tent set up soon with the help of the military and reopen their service there. They have restarted their reproductive health, adult and pediatric, HIV and TB services and have their lab and radiology up and running on a limited basis. The Haitian staff who work at GCH all have their 'horror stories'. All have had great loss and suffered psychological, if not physical, trauma. But they still show up for work and put on their best faces.

We have visited other health centers as well as the parts of PAP we always loved to see: the National Palace, the large Catholic cathedral, beautiful Trinity Episcopal Church, our favorite guesthouse, The Providence, the Haitian Justice Center and business after business, home after home all flattened and basically destroyed.

Tens of thousands of men, women and children still lie under the rubble that we see everywhere.

 The stories of the children coming into the clinics are heartbreaking: babies found in their dead mother's arms, children pulled out of the rubble after several days, the only ones to survive in their families, limb and pelvic fractures, depressed skull fractures, children with respiratory symptoms from all the dust and dirt, those with so much psychological trauma and not being able to sleep or eat or with stomach aches and many symptoms "since the earthquake". Children came in for illnesses and check-ups, having been dropped off at an orphanage because of losing parents, all with sad little faces. And the sad tales go on and on.

But the people are doing all they can to function and start the long process of recovery though most are sleeping outside, many under tarps and tents along the edges of streets or in large tent cities where there is any open space.

Please pray for these brave people and do not let America forget to continue to support Haiti in its recovery even after the journalists leave and the TV cameras go on to something else. It will be decades for recovery but the Haitian people have a resolve. Let's not forget them.

Click here to watch the new ICC video about the earthquake!

Click here to see the video shot by CTV News (Canadian Television) in the days shortly after the earthquake. It features Grace Children's Hospital and Dr. John Yates, formerly ICC Haiti national director, as he travels back to Haiti. Remember, if you would like to give to ICC USA, give here.