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Franklin Graham Update | December
Franklin Graham Update | December
Shining Gospel Light
in Jamaica
Dear Friend,
I just got back from Jamaica where our teams continue to bring relief to hurting people in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. The storm may have passed, but the damage it left is horrible.
In Black River, near where the deadly Category 5 storm made landfall, we've set up an Emergency Field Hospital. The local medical facility there was destroyed by the hurricane, so people had nowhere to turn. We've treated over 2,500 patients and performed more than 100 surgeries.
Our team spent weeks caring for one patient, Latonia, who came to us with a badly infected foot that had to be amputated. She was grateful, saying, "If this hospital and the people abroad never come to help, we will be dead like dogs. Lot of people will be dying cause we don't have nowhere to go."
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