Operations Central by Dror Yaron

GigapanMagazine.org  vol 3 issue 4

In contrast to the hospital’s courtyard, the garage area in the rear of the building is noisy with the sound of generators that provide all the electricity, running water and other essentials vital to a hospital and its campus. The background noise of the diesel generators that run 24/7 is deafening. At the head of this “backyard” is Jimmy Tinsley, a CMU engineering graduate who keeps all the pieces running. “Haiti,” he joked, “is where school buses come to die.” Indeed, Haitian roads are hard on cars and trucks, which require constant overhauls. Some of the communication dishes and other devices can be seen as well as the many vehicles that HAS needs to function. In addition, this is the area where all deliveries are stored and sorted for each department. On the day this shot was taken, someone had dropped off a couple hundred pounds of mangoes at the Hospital. A group of students from the school of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale came to the hospital and built a solar greenhouse to dry some mangoes: seehaiti.posterous.com/operations-central