TDA Team Sets Up Clinics Around Port-au-Prince

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The Transformational Development Agency team has moved into Port-au-Prince, near the epicenter of the quake. The team, which left from Westlake Village Jan 24, is now setting up makeshift medical clinics around the city.

"They realized people were stuck in areas with no transportation," explained Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija, who founded the TDA.  "Availability is one thing. Accessibility is another."

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These photos, shot from team members cell phones, are of the medical clinic the team set up inside New Life Children's Home, an orphanage run by a Florida charity.

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The team, which includes about 20 members of the Calvary Community Church in Westlake Village, includes several physicians, including Jolie Pfahler, a doctor from St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica.

"One boy I saw yesterday had a serious gash on the back of his head that was getting badly infected and needed immediate attention," Pfahler said.

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In many cases, dead bodies remain below crushed buildings, but there is no way to get them out yet.

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Olatunbosun-Alakija said she is already putting together another team that she plans to send in a couple of weeks.

"We need medication and people who know how to administer it," she said. 

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