A team of over 200 volunteer medical professionals and support staff from the United States and Ecuador is expected to treat approximately 6,000 people with medical, dental and surgical care. Treatment will be provided from three different sites. There is tremendous suffering and desperate poverty at this time, and so we are coming by God's plan and direction during a time of great need in Ecuador. The First Lady of Ecuador and key Flying Hospital team members took off in an Air Force helicopter to survey El Ni o's flood damages and deliver relief supplies. Tens of thousands of acres of recently planted crops have been inundated.
Water is everywhere.
No roads can be seen. Only a small house or hut on a tiny hillock pokes above the water here and there. The team lands and begins handing out bags of food, clothing and insect repellent. The preferred treatment is erythromycin. With it, most will live.