meika

Upon leaving Port au Prince, on the runway about to board the 5 passenger plane, the PCCHF team spotted a missionary escorting a 9-year old girl.  It took three days for the child's mother to dig her out from the rubble of their home.  Her father and two siblings had perished in the earthquake.

The missionary was urgently seeking an orthopedic surgeon for this child, named Meika.  She had open fractures in both feet and both were partially amputated.  Meika was taken with the team to Pignon.  Upon arrival, her feet were derided in attempts to save them, but the doctors feared they would need to eventually amputate below the knee.
A trans-metatarsal amputation of her left foot and excision of bone on her right was performed. A plastic surgeon performed skin grafts on both feet, and, fortunately, a bilateral below the knee amputation was not necessary.  She will be fitted with prosthetics in the future.
She is a beautiful, loving child who grabbed the hearts of everyone in the hospital.
Meika and her mother are now living at missionary compound that housed the medical team and is owned by Dr. Guy Theodore. Meika’s mother is also working at the mission.