The team have been incredibly busy. The situation is very serious. They tried to make a list for surgery but more urgent cases arrived during the day. People are still being pulled out of the rubble with dreadful injuries.

They have saved lives but there have been deaths as well. They worked until 12am last night to save a baby and the mother, the mother survived but sadly the baby didn't. And today they were treating a 15yr old but she died - she was the last child of her mother - all her other children had died and she was the last one. They had to carry her body out of the hospital on a door as no stretcher was available and carry her one mile to be buried.

It seems that word is getting out that the hospital is functioning and has foreign doctors so people are travelling there for help. One problem that may be developing is that once people have been treated they don't want to leave as they have nowhere to go and the hospital is safe and has some water. But this could overload the hospital so we need to pray for wisdom for the hospital staff.

An exciting development however is the fact that there is a team of Billy Graham chaplains there working with translators. They are sharing Christ with the patients and 20 people have given their lives to Christ today AMEN!!!!! The chaplains have been helping our team as well.

The Doctors are working long hours, but they are well. They felt another after shock when they were in surgery this morning but overall that side of things has eased now. They need more materials but Samaritan’s Purse has two planes arriving tonight with hospital supplies, vehicles, water filters and much more.

Martin Harrison completed a survey of the water supply for the whole hospital compound today and will fit the filter system tomorrow. The team are considering strategies for distributing water in the city, but security is a key consideration.