Safety

The hospital was surrounded by a fence with two gates. The fence did not have a barbwire or anything on top of it. The gates were secured by the Haitians, who were repeatedly asleep at the gait and didn’t worry about checking IDs. There were few Haitian security that were walking around with old rifels. At one situation I had to verbally command one of them to back off. Half way through our week the hospital hired former American military, who was walking around the hospital at night. One of the nights, I was walking on the hospital territory and unintentionally walked up to him from behind. He turned around and pointed a gun at me. I got into fighting stance… LMAO… not that it would help or anything. There was no military on the hospital territory and basically we were secured by the Haitians.
One of the main issues of the hospital was that Haitians were stealing supplies from the supply tent during the night. Everything was disappearing immediately. The hospital solved it, half way through the week we were there, by putting a barb wire around the supply tent leaving a single entry point, secured by the Haitians (again). Additionally, every time the medical personal took anything out of the storage tent they had to sign it out. Having said that, due to the fact that our badges were hand written on a piece of tape, it was not a big deal to pretend to be someone else.