Authorities in Haiti now estimate 200,000 people have been killed by last week’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake. That would make the catastrophe one of the deadliest ever. More than 1.5 million people are believed homeless. Many are streaming out of the capital, Port-au-Prince, reports Mission Network News.

However, the suffering continues in the city as the cries of anguish echo through the streets from those who have still gone untreated for their injuries. HCJB Global sent a medical team in to Port-au-Prince last Friday. President of the organization Wayne Pederson says, “They’ve done about 70 major surgeries, but they’ve treated hundreds of others. It’s almost impossible to count the number of people they’ve treated.”

The team was working at the Baptist Haiti Mission Hospital, one of the only standing hospitals in the region.

Pederson says there have been many heartbreaking stories of parents losing six or seven of their children — entire families being wiped out. But Pederson says there have been encouraging stories, too, like the girl who was treated for a serious infection.

“As the doctors went away from treating her, she began to sing. First she sang low. Then she sang louder and louder. She was singing in Creole, so the doctors didn’t understand what she was singing, but she was singing, ‘I’m saved, I’m saved, I’m saved.'”

However, there are still many more questions than answers. “What do they do with the people after they’re treated? 100-percent of the people have no homes to go to. Our doctors have asked, ‘Where will you go after your treatment?’ They have nowhere to go, so they’re staying around the hospital.”

The smell of death is almost unbearable. “Yesterday, our community development director dug a grave, and the staff began to bury people that have no next of kin, or maybe other family members were killed in the earthquake — so, they began burying the dead.”

While this team is getting ready to head home to Quito, Ecuador, Pederson says, “We will be sending in a second wave of medical professionals by the end of the week. This will be an ongoing process where we bring new personnel in and send others home for rest and renewal.”