While a contingent of local missionaries continues to work flat out in Haiti in light of this week’s massive earthquake — there are others who are watching from afar.
Doctor Elgin Loney of Lion’s Head travels to Haiti every two years to work in a remote medical clinic.
He says he was shocked and saddened by news of the massive earthquake on Tuesday.
Dr. Loney says the impoverished nation was already in poor shape before the destruction with a lack of good drinking water, poor roads, no sanitation facilities and decrepit buildings.
He says he knows well the area hit hardest by the quake and stayed at the same guest house in Port Au Prince where an Elmira nurse was killed after arriving just 90 minutes before the quake.
Loney was last in Haiti to help after a series of hurricanes in 2008 and says he hopes to return in the spring — when he’s sure they’ll still be needing plenty of assistance.