Just days after a devastating earthquake struck the impoverished nation of Haiti, residents and visitors are seeking aid to recover from the overwhelming loss and destruction. MTV News' Sway Calloway spoke via Skype to Martine Cauthen, a 23-year-old nurse who was already in Haiti working with her aunt at a local clinic. Cauthen was in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince during the earthquake and said that right now everyone is scrambling to try and help the injured and find shelter.

"I had just left the bank and I was walking to my aunt's clinic, which is in Port-au-Prince," she relayed. "In my head the first thing I thought was, 'That was a loud truck,' and I look to my right and all these kids started running. I don't know what I was doing. I just ran. I just started doing circles in the street. ... I ran back inside the clinic yelling for my aunt who was already behind me. For a second I didn't know what was happening. It was chaos."

Cauthen recalled her reaction in the confusion: "The first thing I said was, 'Nobody told me that there were earthquakes here. I would have never moved here.' " She continued, "I just made sure that my aunt was still with me. Everybody was just looking around like, 'What happened?' People were praying to God. I really realized it was really bad was when people started walking into my aunt's clinic [with injuries]."

She explained that the injuries she's seen since the earthquake are ones that she will most likely never forget. "Another woman, her house had fallen on her. She came in and she was losing her mind," she explained. "I saw a man [and] his ears were off, one of his eyes was hanging off. A rock fell on his face. He had a hole in his knee. She sewed his ear back on. And I saw kids with holes in the head to where you could see the skull. The whole time I thought I was just in a movie."

Right now, she said, aid is needed, especially medical supplies and shelter for the Haitians. "I actually went to nursing school for a little bit so I know the sanitary procedures. We were out of syringes. We were out of anesthesia. It took forever to find insulin for a woman with diabetes. The syringes were breaking ... it was horrible. There was blood all over the ground. The doctors were doing the best that they could with what they had.

"People are sleeping in the streets right now with open wounds," she explained, adding that if people want to help they should contact Baptist Haiti Mission. "If it rains on those open wounds, no one's gonna get healed. Shelter [is the] number one [thing we need]. Number two, [we need] more doctors, more syringes."

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