ROCKFORD, Mich. (AP) _ Michigan-based Baptist Haiti Mission says its hospital near the epicenter of Tuesday’s earthquake is open and doing the best it can to treat a flood of casualties. Mission board member Ron Sparks says the medical team there reports some patients have been too badly injured to save and others have died on the way to the hospital.
Sparks says Baptist Haiti Mission has more than 350 churches and schools throughout the country, and at least two of its churches were destroyed in the quake. But the hospital and surrounding missionary compound a few miles west of Port-au-Prince were relatively undamaged.
Right now, he says the mission — like many other relief agencies — needs cash donations, and its medical team in Haiti needs prayer.