A story in today's New York Times takes a closer look at musician Wyclef Jean's bid to be Haiti's next president. Jean's relief organization set up for the country in 2005, Yele Haiti Foundation, was called into question this past winter, when reports found that money given to the foundation for the country's poor was poorly accounted for. But now he has stepped down from the organization to run for president of the country.

Eleanor Miller was at home in New York when a friend's Facebook post alerted her to an aid trip leaving to help Haitian earthquake victims. Less than 48 hours later, she was on a plane to the Dominican Republic, and from there flew to Port-au-Prince to volunteer.

After navigating an extremely difficult logistical situation, a group of us ended up at CDTI, a hospital normally open only to private patients. After the earthquake, its doors were thrown open to anyone who queued outside its gates, and its gleaming rooms were converted into makeshift operating rooms and triage units.

We spent just under two days at the hospital. My friend Aash and I, neither of us medical professionals, learned to dress wounds and assist surgeons. We spoke to survivors haunted by pain both physical and emotional. Amputations and fasciotomies were the most common procedures because so many people had been wounded by falling debris. Doctors told us that amputees are now likely to be a significant portion of the population because infection is such a common problem and regular follow-up care so desperately needed (and unlikely to occur).