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2010 HAITI EARTHQUAKE
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http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-1156-its-like-gettysburg-doctors-struggle-in-primitive-conditions.html
Jan 18, 2010
This clinic set up by the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine is filling a small but vital role for more than 300 Haitians severely injured by last week's 7.0 earthquake. By Tuesday, doctors plan to open a larger facility nearby capable of treating more patients — a crucial endeavor as crushed limbs begin to rot from infection.
"The people here have no place to go," said UM Dr. Eduardo de Marchena, the de facto chief medical officer. "It's become a clinic and a refugee camp of sorts."
Survivors with similar injuries also are packing into a hospital a few hours away in Jimani, a border town with the Dominican Republic.
"We've seen a lot of carnage," said Francisco Moquete, head of the Melenciano Hospital in Jimani. "A bomb didn't fall on the victims, but it's as if one had."
Gaping wounds. Infected gashes. Fractured ribs, hips and skulls. Crushed arms and legs. Collapsed lungs and internal hemorrhaging.
To save lives, doctors are resorting to amputations. Their biggest fear: a potential malaria epidemic in Haiti that "will have undescribable consequences," said Rafael Sanchez, regional director of the Health Ministry of the Dominican Republic, which includes 13 hospitals in four provinces near the Haiti border.
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http://helphaitianrefugees.org/updates/
Jan 16, 2010
Dominican officials along the border with Haiti confirmed on Friday that they were expecting tens of thousands of refugees, fleeing the tragedy that had befallen the neighboring country.
People overwhelmingly in need of aid are expected, Marcos Santana, governor of the Independencia province, told El Nuevo Herald. Some spaces would be readied on an as-needed basis, he added.
However, the chaos Friday at the Melenciano, the main hospital in the town of Jiman, revealed that the system has been overwhelmed.
“All the hospitals in the region are already at maximum capacity,” said Francisco Moquete, director of Melenciano Hospital, which has 34 beds and has seen 700 patients since the tragedy struck. “From here we are sending them to church centers, but those are full as well.”