- Via WEAR-TV 3/Pensacola, Florida -

PENSACOLA - The Gulf Coast has stepped to the plate in the last few days and your generosity is already making a difference in the lives of Haitians.

Dan Thomas was in Haiti over the weekend to see how medical supplies donated from our area are being put to use here's just some of what he saw.

On Friday local engineer Gene Schmidt took a break from his day job. and got to work.

Thanks to Sacred Heart Hospital, Pediatric Associates and First Methodist Church he has a full plane load of goods headed for Haiti.

Once on the ground Gene connects with Bahamas Habitat dot org... Based in Nassau they're coordinating pilots from all over the world to reach remote areas hurting for supplies.

A costly journey to places where often only small planes can land.

As we open the door in Les Cayes, just outside of Port Au Prince, we're greeted by a group of children.

They're begging for food. Something they do everyday of their lives, but Schmidt only has medical supplies. Which he immediately hands over to a missionary group called r-m-i net dot org.

This is where those supplies go. It's a hospital unlike anything the United States has seen in over a century.

They're doing amputations by the dozens, resetting broken bones, and tending to a host of other problems caused by the quake.

This man is singing christian hymns, hoping to get his mind off the pain. The strongest anthistetic they have here is tylenol.

He was in school in Port Au Prince when a wall fell on his leg.

Doctor Bill Tenhaaf was able to save it by fashioning together a couple of pieces of rebarb to reset the bone.

Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/rminet.Org clinic: "We're running out of supplies at all 3 hospitals in town. We're making due with what we have as you've already seen from our fellow here. You know we don't have the equipment we need."

The goods from Pensacola will help save lives... But will run out soon.

The wave of wounded has overwhelmed resources in an already impoverished area.

Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/rminet.Org clinic: "We're feeling very good about what we're doing. What we don't' know is how many more people are going to come from Port Au Prince. We just see more and more coming."

In the next few days we'll be bringing you more stories about helping Haitians.

And if you want to help the relief efforts,

Log onto Bahamas habitat -dot-org

And we plan to go back to Haiti this weekend. If you have any questions you want answered or stories you want to see covered. E-mail Dan or leave him a message on Channel Three's Facebook Page.

You can find all this information again by going to weartv-dot-com.