The country of Haiti was ripped apart by a catastrophic earthquake a year ago.
Today, the Haitian community in McAllen said however, the devastation continues.
“People don’t have shelter, people don’t have water, they don’t have food to eat,” Dr. Abdias Etienne, a family practitioner said.
Dr. Abdias Etienne is originally from Haiti and currently practices family medicine in McAllen.
He was one of 20 Valley doctors who traveled to Port Au Prince right after the January 12th earthquake.
"Each doctor was able to see about 150 people a day," Etienne said. "It's things that you've never seen before.”
The experience changed Dr. Etienne, he said. Etienne doesn't take simple things like food and water for granted, and adds that he continues to hurt for his people.
“You can't stay here and not wanting to go back if you've been there trust me," Etienne said.
Dr. Etienne is gathering a group of physicians to return to Haiti this summer to pick-up where they left-off.
"The debris that was in Haiti one year ago - only five percent has been removed,” Etienne said.
“Over one million Haitians are still homeless, there's an outbreak of Cholera right now and people are dying - in October there were 1,000 cases now over 4,000 people have died of cholera," Etienne said.
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