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Dr. Alexandra Bastien says she was blessed with medical supplies when she went to Haiti. The anesthesiologist says Montefiore Hospital allowed the medical team she was on to take equipment and medicine.

"Between antibiotics and pain relief medication, local anesthetics. All the kinds of things we as physicians could think we needed we went with. So we were actually sharing our resources with everyone down there that did not have," Bastien said.

Bastien was born in Haiti, but her family moved to the United States when she was a baby. Her first time back to the country was to help earthquake victims.

"So we landed in an air strip location. I touched the dirt, I kissed the ground. There were people waving. I felt like I arrived home," said Dr. Alexandra Bastien of Montefiore Medical Center.

But it quickly hit her, she was there on a mission to save lives.

"Amputations, limb savaging, spine fractures, skull fractures, just an awful lot of trauma," said Bastien.

Although she has participated in plenty of surgeries during her 14 years at Montefiore, nothing could have prepared her for Haiti where she functioned as a critical care specialist. The doctor says she did have nightmares when she returned home.

"Everyone immediately felt that I needed to have psycho therapy which they plugged in.
And also dealt with it by helping me to speak about it a lot," Bastien said.

Others say people in Haiti are still suffering with post traumatic stress. Nurse Margarette Vigne visited family in September.

"A couple of times where I was sitting there, I didn't feel anything and people got up and ran out. And it was a truck coming down the road. I was, 'What's wrong with these people?' They say, 'You don't understand, we lived it.' They are still traumatized," said Montefiore Medical Center Nurse Manager Margarette Vigne.

Montefiore Medical Center says dozens of its staff members flew down to Haiti to help out, many with medical teams, others just on their own. And some say they are willing to go back to help out once again.

"Absolutely, absolutely I would do it all over again," said Montefiore Medical Center Surgical Technician Lynoid Wallerson. "I wish we could have stayed longer because our stay there was just a week. We would have loved to stay longer."