The following list of needed medical supplies has been reviewed and approved by nurse Nancy James, wife of Steven James, M.D., CBF's medical missionaries in Haiti.

Medications: (These items can be purchased over the counter at any local drug store)
Aspirin
Children's and adult multi-vitamin
Benadryl
Neosporin or triple antibiotic
HydroCortisone Ointment
Oral re-hydration salts
Cough medications
Acetamenophen (doesn't have to be Tylenol )
Ibuprophen (generic)

Medical Supplies: (These items can be purchased over the counter at any local drug store)
Ace bandages
Alcohol pads
Band-aids
Betadine wipes and sticks
Drapes
Gauzes - any size
Gloves - all sizes, sterile/non-sterile
Gowns -surgical and patient (head and shoe covers, goggles, masks)
Pediatric supplies
Tape - all types
Thermometers

Other:
Antibiotics
Zantac
Prevacid
Hypertension medications
Type two-Diabetes medication
Blades - sterile only
Needles - butterfly, angio catheter
Compression stockings
Dressings - sterile and un-sterile (Coban, Tegaderm, Steri-Strip, Surgilast)
IV supplies - tubing in sterile packages only
Scalpels
Sponges - surgical only (includes X-ray detectable)
Surgical towels - cloth/paper
Sutures
Syringes
Tongue depressors
Cotton tipped applicators

PLEASE spread the word through your community, church and influences.  Collect what you can and send to our collection location so they can be shipped to the James' in Haiti.

Ship to:

CBF Haiti Supplies
c/o North Stuart Baptist Church
1950 NW Federal Highway
P.O. Box 958
Stuart, FL  34995-0958

If a phone number is needed on the shipment, you can use Brent McDougal's cell number: 205-269-0563.

AlabamaCBF will also be taking a trailer full of supplies to Florida to be shipped to Haiti in the next few weeks. If you would like to ship donated items through AlabamaCBF, please contact Brent McDougal at the above number.

In the meantime, our encouragement is:

1)  PRAY - no explanation needed; just PRAY.  Pray for Dr. Steve James, Nurse Nancy James, and Scott Hunter, CBF field personnel in Haiti coordinating the efforts to help.

2) GIVE - Financial contributions are best thing everyone can give right now.  Money will be needed in order to fund the relief needs.  You can donate through the fund established by CBF Atlanta. Go to www.thefellowship.info for information on giving. Or, you can send a check to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, P.O. Box 101699, Atlanta, GA 30392, indicating fund No. 17015 "Haiti Response."

3) GO - In time many, many persons will be needed in the long-term efforts Cooperative Baptists and partners will engage in.  Varying skills will be needed.  Medical personnel and people to help with collection and distribution of supplies.
From Chris Boltin, short term assignments and partnerships manager at the CBF Resource Center in Atlanta, "We need to hear from you so that when specific projects are identified, we will be able to quickly match the need with the resource."   Those interested in serving in Haiti should visit CBF Disaster-Response-Application to list their skills and experience (also found at CBF's website).