- Via WEAR TV-3/Pensacola, Florida -

GULF COAST - It's been exactly two weeks since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands and injuring even more.

In the past 14 days, donations have been pouring in from all over the Gulf Coast. Our own Dan Thomas followed 2 plane loads of supplies as they were distributed to people in desperate need.

Yesterday, he showed us how one doctor is cobbling together scraps to make medical equipment. He joins us know with a follow-up.

One of many remarkable people I met was a doctor using the goods and money people in the area are donating to save lives on the spot.

At times the pictures you're about to see are disturbing.

24 hours after we left Pensacola, medical supplies were in this doctor's hands and here's how he put it to work.

Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "I think there's a good chance, I've got the tendon covered."

Doctor Bill Tenhaaf is struggling to save this man's remaining fingers.

Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "So if you've got the 3 fingers you should be able to do pretty well."

If he gets the infection under control he'll be able to do a skin graft.

Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "This surgeon is a saint man, he's going to pull this guy through this."

Doctor Richard McGlaughlin of Birmingham flew in supplies in his personal plane and started making rounds with doctor Bill...

Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "You don't come across too many holy people in life but here's one."

Dan Thomas/Reporter: "This clinic here in Les Cayes is at capacity and they keep getting more for Port Au Prince everyday and not only are they short on beds, they're also short on supplies, so they have to improvise with what they have."

This is what's called an external fixador... To reset a broken bone...

Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "This is what it's supposed to look like. This is a proper external fixidor. It's a little bit done not right, because I had no X-ray to tell me when I was through the other side of the bone, so I just shot it through."

But Doctor Bill ran out, so he made his own... Out of pieces of re-bar and bondo.

Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "I couldn't do it with a car, he did it with a patient."

And what's most surprising? It's working.

Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "I thought this guy was going to lose his leg but I don't anymore. I think it looks like he's really going to settle down." "and I really love the re-bar. ha ha."

But the ingenuity only goes so far.... all 3 hospitals in Les Cayes are over capacity... People are lying on the floor and being treated in tents... and more keep coming everyday.

Even the victims lucky enough to see Dr. Bill likely won't have pain medications or antibiotics.

Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "Infections is going to be a huge problem over the next couple of months.

In the next few days we'll be bringing you more stories about helping Haitians.
If you want to help the relief efforts, log onto BahamasHabitat.org.

We also plan to go back to Haiti this weekend. If you have any questions you want answered or stories you want covered... E-mail Dan Thomas or leave him a message on Channel Three's Facebook page.

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