Still pulling people out alive - Friday an 84 year old after 10 days of being buried. Amazing.
Survivors defy odds as toll tops 110,000
Survivors defy odds as toll tops 110,000
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Earthquake - 7.0 Magnitude in Haiti
Respuesta a daniel rodriguez
SR. DANIEL RODR?GUEZ
NO ES PARA M?, UN PLACER ESCRIBIRLE Y CONTESTAR LA TONTER?A DISPARATADA Y MAL INTENCIONADA QUE UD. ESCRIBI? Y CON ANUENCIA DE SUS EDITORES, NO S? DE QU? NACIONALIDAD ES UD. Y REALMENTE NO ME INTERESA YA QUE ME IMAGINO QUE UD. NACI? EN UN PA?S DONDE NO SE RESPETA EL DERECHO AJENO Y MUCHO MENOS EL PROPIO.
YA QUE UD. APARENTEMENTE LE GUSTA LA HISTORIA LA REUNIFICACI?N DE LAS ALEMANIAS SE PRODUJO NO PORQUE NO FUERAN UN MISMO PUEBLO Y HABLARAN EL MISMO IDIOMA, ERA UNA MISMA NACI?N DIVIDIDA POR UN CONFLICTO, QUE NO ES EL CASO DE LA HISPANIOLA.
SI UD. CONOCE A HAIT?, PODR? DARSE CUENTA DE QUE JAM?S PODR?N UNIFICARSE LAS 2 NACIONES:
1. EL IDIOMA
2. IDIOSINCRASIA
3. CREENCIAS RELIGIOSAS
4. HISTORIA
Y NO HABLEMOS DE MUCHAS OTRAS COSAS QUE QUIZ?S A UD. LE AFECTE DE MANERA EN ESPECIAL, PERO SIGAMOS CON LA FALACIA DE SU TEOR?A.
?EN QU? CABEZA CABE QUE REPUBLICA DOMINICANA SEA UNIDA A HAIT??, ?CONOCE UD. ACASO A UN DOMINICANO QUE LE PERMITA DECIR SEMEJANTE BARRABASADA? NOSOTROS LOS QUE TENEMOS LA POSIBILIDAD DE ESCRIBIRLE Y ESGRIMIRLE QUE PARA QUE PUEDA UD. REFERIRSE A NUESTRO PUEBLO PRIMERO HAGA UNA REVERENCIA Y PIDA PERMISO, PARA PODER REFERIRSE A UNA NACI?N CON HISTORIAL DE LIBERTAD Y LE ESCRIBO EN CASTELLANO YA QUE UD. ENTIENDE ESTE IDIOMA, YA QUE ES SU LENGUA MATERNA.
SI A UD. LE DUELE ABRIR SU CARTERA PARA AYUDAR A LOS HAITIANOS, LO CUAL DUDO QUE ALL? SIDO CAPAZ DE DAR UN SOLO PESO, YA QUE SU MEZQUINDAD LA REFLEJAN SUS PALABRAS, SABE UD. POR SIMPLE CURIOSIDAD QUIENES ACUDIERON EN AYUDA Y RESCATE DE ESA NACI?N EN DESGRACIA EN ESTOS MOMENTOS?
DEBO DE RECORDARLE SR. QUE LAS NACIONES TIENEN LOS GOBERNANTES Y LA SUERTE QUE ELLOS SE GRANJEAN O MERECEN. SI NO ENTIENDES ESTA FRASE MIRA ALREDEDOR DEL MUNDO Y F?JATE COMO SE VIVE EN LOS DEM?S PA?SES CON LIBERTAD Y PROPIA DETERMINACI?N.
ME ALEGRO SABER QUE NO TODO EL MUNDO PIENSAN COMO T?, Y TU CAPACIDAD DE ENTENDER LO QUE SIGNIFICA SER LIBRE NO ES UNO DE TUS ATRIBUTOS.
TE INVITO A QUE LEAS Y ESCUCHES EL CANTO A LA PATRIA DOMINICANA PARA QUE APRENDAS LO QUE ES CORAJE VALENT?A Y AMOR POR SU PATRIA Y LIBERTAD.
HIMNO NACIONAL DOMINICANO
Quisqueyanos valientes, alcemos
Nuestro canto con viva emoci?n,
Y del mundo a la faz ostentemos
Nuestro invicto, glorioso pend?n.
iSalve! el pueblo que, intr?pido y fuerte.
A la guerra a morir se lanz?,
Cuando en b?lico reto de muerte
Sus cadenas de esclavo rompi?.
Ning?n pueblo ser libre merece
Si es esclavo, indolente y servil;
Si en su pecho la llama no crece
Que templ? el hero?smo viril.
Mas Quisqueya la ind?mita y brava
Siempre altiva la frente alzar?;
Que si fuere mil veces esclava
Otras tantas ser libre sabr?.
Que si dolo y ardid la expusieron
de un intruso se?or al desd?n,
Las Carreras, Beller, campos fueron
que cubiertos de gloria se ven.
Que en la cima de hero?co baluarte,
de los libres el verbo encarn?,
donde el genio de S?nchez y Duarte
a ser libre o morir ense??.
Y si pudo inconsulto caudillo
de esas glorias el brillo empa?ar,
de la guerra se vi? en Capotillo
la bandera de fuego ondear.
Y el incendio que at?nito deja
de Castilla al soberbio le?n,
de las playas gloriosas le aleja
donde flota el cruzado pend?n.
Compatriotas, mostremos erguida
nuestra frente, orgullosos de hoy m?s;
que Quisqueya ser? destruida
pero sierva de nuevo, jam?s.
Que es santuario de amor cada pecho
do la patria se siente vivir;
Y es su escudo invencible, el derecho;
Y es su lema: ser libre o morir.
Libertad que a?n se yergue serena
La victoria en su carro triunfal,
Y el clar?n de la guerra a?n resuena
Pregonando su gloria inmortal.
?Libertad! Que los ecos se agiten
Mientras llenos de noble ansiedad
Nuestros campos de gloria repiten
?Libertad! ?Libertad! ?Libertad!
Esas son las letras de los dominicanos, para aquellos como t?, que quieren equivocarse con nosotros pero que no se atrevan ya que a sangre y fuego de su equivocaci?n lo sacaremos.
DR. ANGEL GARCIA, PhD
MIAMI, FLORIDA
ANGELGARCIAMD@GMAIL.COM
SR. DANIEL RODR?GUEZ
NO ES PARA M?, UN PLACER ESCRIBIRLE Y CONTESTAR LA TONTER?A DISPARATADA Y MAL INTENCIONADA QUE UD. ESCRIBI? Y CON ANUENCIA DE SUS EDITORES, NO S? DE QU? NACIONALIDAD ES UD. Y REALMENTE NO ME INTERESA YA QUE ME IMAGINO QUE UD. NACI? EN UN PA?S DONDE NO SE RESPETA EL DERECHO AJENO Y MUCHO MENOS EL PROPIO.
YA QUE UD. APARENTEMENTE LE GUSTA LA HISTORIA LA REUNIFICACI?N DE LAS ALEMANIAS SE PRODUJO NO PORQUE NO FUERAN UN MISMO PUEBLO Y HABLARAN EL MISMO IDIOMA, ERA UNA MISMA NACI?N DIVIDIDA POR UN CONFLICTO, QUE NO ES EL CASO DE LA HISPANIOLA.
SI UD. CONOCE A HAIT?, PODR? DARSE CUENTA DE QUE JAM?S PODR?N UNIFICARSE LAS 2 NACIONES:
1. EL IDIOMA
2. IDIOSINCRASIA
3. CREENCIAS RELIGIOSAS
4. HISTORIA
Y NO HABLEMOS DE MUCHAS OTRAS COSAS QUE QUIZ?S A UD. LE AFECTE DE MANERA EN ESPECIAL, PERO SIGAMOS CON LA FALACIA DE SU TEOR?A.
?EN QU? CABEZA CABE QUE REPUBLICA DOMINICANA SEA UNIDA A HAIT??, ?CONOCE UD. ACASO A UN DOMINICANO QUE LE PERMITA DECIR SEMEJANTE BARRABASADA? NOSOTROS LOS QUE TENEMOS LA POSIBILIDAD DE ESCRIBIRLE Y ESGRIMIRLE QUE PARA QUE PUEDA UD. REFERIRSE A NUESTRO PUEBLO PRIMERO HAGA UNA REVERENCIA Y PIDA PERMISO, PARA PODER REFERIRSE A UNA NACI?N CON HISTORIAL DE LIBERTAD Y LE ESCRIBO EN CASTELLANO YA QUE UD. ENTIENDE ESTE IDIOMA, YA QUE ES SU LENGUA MATERNA.
SI A UD. LE DUELE ABRIR SU CARTERA PARA AYUDAR A LOS HAITIANOS, LO CUAL DUDO QUE ALL? SIDO CAPAZ DE DAR UN SOLO PESO, YA QUE SU MEZQUINDAD LA REFLEJAN SUS PALABRAS, SABE UD. POR SIMPLE CURIOSIDAD QUIENES ACUDIERON EN AYUDA Y RESCATE DE ESA NACI?N EN DESGRACIA EN ESTOS MOMENTOS?
DEBO DE RECORDARLE SR. QUE LAS NACIONES TIENEN LOS GOBERNANTES Y LA SUERTE QUE ELLOS SE GRANJEAN O MERECEN. SI NO ENTIENDES ESTA FRASE MIRA ALREDEDOR DEL MUNDO Y F?JATE COMO SE VIVE EN LOS DEM?S PA?SES CON LIBERTAD Y PROPIA DETERMINACI?N.
ME ALEGRO SABER QUE NO TODO EL MUNDO PIENSAN COMO T?, Y TU CAPACIDAD DE ENTENDER LO QUE SIGNIFICA SER LIBRE NO ES UNO DE TUS ATRIBUTOS.
TE INVITO A QUE LEAS Y ESCUCHES EL CANTO A LA PATRIA DOMINICANA PARA QUE APRENDAS LO QUE ES CORAJE VALENT?A Y AMOR POR SU PATRIA Y LIBERTAD.
HIMNO NACIONAL DOMINICANO
Quisqueyanos valientes, alcemos
Nuestro canto con viva emoci?n,
Y del mundo a la faz ostentemos
Nuestro invicto, glorioso pend?n.
iSalve! el pueblo que, intr?pido y fuerte.
A la guerra a morir se lanz?,
Cuando en b?lico reto de muerte
Sus cadenas de esclavo rompi?.
Ning?n pueblo ser libre merece
Si es esclavo, indolente y servil;
Si en su pecho la llama no crece
Que templ? el hero?smo viril.
Mas Quisqueya la ind?mita y brava
Siempre altiva la frente alzar?;
Que si fuere mil veces esclava
Otras tantas ser libre sabr?.
Que si dolo y ardid la expusieron
de un intruso se?or al desd?n,
Las Carreras, Beller, campos fueron
que cubiertos de gloria se ven.
Que en la cima de hero?co baluarte,
de los libres el verbo encarn?,
donde el genio de S?nchez y Duarte
a ser libre o morir ense??.
Y si pudo inconsulto caudillo
de esas glorias el brillo empa?ar,
de la guerra se vi? en Capotillo
la bandera de fuego ondear.
Y el incendio que at?nito deja
de Castilla al soberbio le?n,
de las playas gloriosas le aleja
donde flota el cruzado pend?n.
Compatriotas, mostremos erguida
nuestra frente, orgullosos de hoy m?s;
que Quisqueya ser? destruida
pero sierva de nuevo, jam?s.
Que es santuario de amor cada pecho
do la patria se siente vivir;
Y es su escudo invencible, el derecho;
Y es su lema: ser libre o morir.
Libertad que a?n se yergue serena
La victoria en su carro triunfal,
Y el clar?n de la guerra a?n resuena
Pregonando su gloria inmortal.
?Libertad! Que los ecos se agiten
Mientras llenos de noble ansiedad
Nuestros campos de gloria repiten
?Libertad! ?Libertad! ?Libertad!
Esas son las letras de los dominicanos, para aquellos como t?, que quieren equivocarse con nosotros pero que no se atrevan ya que a sangre y fuego de su equivocaci?n lo sacaremos.
DR. ANGEL GARCIA, PhD
MIAMI, FLORIDA
ANGELGARCIAMD@GMAIL.COM
if you read french
Du 7 mai au 10 Mai 1842 : ?picentre se situant entre San Juan et San Domingo. Une v?ritable catastrophe ruine la quasi totalit? de l'?le d'Hispaniola. 50.000 ? 60.000 morts en Ha?ti et au moins autant en R?publique Dominicaine. La ville de Santiago est d?truite et celle du Cap Ha?tien, 5.000 morts sur les 10.000 habitants, de m?me. De nombreux immeubles s'effondrent ? San Domingo. Le palais de Sans Souci et la Citadelle Laferri?re ont ?t? endommag?s ? Milot.. Un tsunami ravage les c?tes du nord et des vagues de plus de 5 m?tres de haut ont ?t? enregistr?es ? Port de Paix et ? Port au Prince. Des documents pr?cisent: ? la terre s'ouvre et se ferme avalant un grand nombre de personnes. ? : Magnitude 8 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? estim?e ? IX sur l'?chelle MSK.
En 1887 : dans le nord d'Ha?ti avec des d?g?ts majeurs ? Port de Paix et Cap Ha?tien : Magnitude 7,5 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? estim?e ? IX sur l'?chelle MSK
Le 29 d?cembre 1897 : ? 6 h 32 du matin. La ville de Santiago, R?publique Dominicaine, est partiellement d?truite : Magnitude de 7 ? 7,5 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? IX sur l'?chelle MSK.
En 1904 : Dans le nord du pays avec d?g?ts majeurs ? Port de Paix et Cap Ha?tien : Magnitude 8 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? estim?e ? X sur l'?chelle MSK.
Le 6 octobre 1911 : La ville de San Juan est tr?s endommag?e : Magnitude de 7 ? 7,5 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? IX sur l'?chelle MSK.
Le 4 ao?t 1946, ? 13 heures : S?isme enregistr? ? Cuba, ? Puerto Rico... Ressenti dans toutes les ?les des Grandes et des Petites Antilles, sur les C?tes Sud des ?tats Unis, les c?tes Nord de l'Am?rique du Sud, et dans toute l'Am?rique centrale, - Mexique, Guatemala, Nicaragua Honduras, Panama... -, Nombreux d?g?ts sur les b?timents et un tsunami d?truit la ville de Matanzas et provoque de gros d?g?ts ? Nagua : Magnitude de 8,1 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? IX sur l'?chelle MSK.
Du 7 mai au 10 Mai 1842 : ?picentre se situant entre San Juan et San Domingo. Une v?ritable catastrophe ruine la quasi totalit? de l'?le d'Hispaniola. 50.000 ? 60.000 morts en Ha?ti et au moins autant en R?publique Dominicaine. La ville de Santiago est d?truite et celle du Cap Ha?tien, 5.000 morts sur les 10.000 habitants, de m?me. De nombreux immeubles s'effondrent ? San Domingo. Le palais de Sans Souci et la Citadelle Laferri?re ont ?t? endommag?s ? Milot.. Un tsunami ravage les c?tes du nord et des vagues de plus de 5 m?tres de haut ont ?t? enregistr?es ? Port de Paix et ? Port au Prince. Des documents pr?cisent: ? la terre s'ouvre et se ferme avalant un grand nombre de personnes. ? : Magnitude 8 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? estim?e ? IX sur l'?chelle MSK.
En 1887 : dans le nord d'Ha?ti avec des d?g?ts majeurs ? Port de Paix et Cap Ha?tien : Magnitude 7,5 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? estim?e ? IX sur l'?chelle MSK
Le 29 d?cembre 1897 : ? 6 h 32 du matin. La ville de Santiago, R?publique Dominicaine, est partiellement d?truite : Magnitude de 7 ? 7,5 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? IX sur l'?chelle MSK.
En 1904 : Dans le nord du pays avec d?g?ts majeurs ? Port de Paix et Cap Ha?tien : Magnitude 8 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? estim?e ? X sur l'?chelle MSK.
Le 6 octobre 1911 : La ville de San Juan est tr?s endommag?e : Magnitude de 7 ? 7,5 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? IX sur l'?chelle MSK.
Le 4 ao?t 1946, ? 13 heures : S?isme enregistr? ? Cuba, ? Puerto Rico... Ressenti dans toutes les ?les des Grandes et des Petites Antilles, sur les C?tes Sud des ?tats Unis, les c?tes Nord de l'Am?rique du Sud, et dans toute l'Am?rique centrale, - Mexique, Guatemala, Nicaragua Honduras, Panama... -, Nombreux d?g?ts sur les b?timents et un tsunami d?truit la ville de Matanzas et provoque de gros d?g?ts ? Nagua : Magnitude de 8,1 sur l'?chelle de Richter avec une intensit? IX sur l'?chelle MSK.
Wow! Tous des gros s?isme! Where is Port de Paix?
Ok found it, it's north of Haiti
Wow! Tous des gros s?isme! Where is Port de Paix?
Northern Haiti, on the coast, some ? 35 miles from Cap Haitien. It also had a bad fire in 1903: report from NY Times:
Fire Destroys Port de Paix
Bingo! Posting at same time. But the historic paper clipping is neat...
http://oneresponse.info/Disasters/H... 17 - Haiti Earthquake - 3 February 2010-.pdf
latest report on relief efforts from the UN
latest report on relief efforts from the UN
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MYAI-82R9JG/$File/full_report.pdf
updated OCHA report
updated OCHA report
last us field hospital pulls out of HAITI
(Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2010)
Emergency Doctors Leave Haiti
By IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN
PORT-AU-PRINCE?Doctors here are bracing for another onslaught of patients, as emergency workers leave the country and thousands of surgeries done after the January 12 earthquake need to be redone.
Between 25% and 30% of postearthquake surgeries will need to be done again to avoid problems, says Dr. Jean "William" Pape, an infectious disease authority who is founder of Gheskio, an HIV/AIDS clinic next door to a field hospital set up by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That estimate is corroborated by Haitian, U.S. and other medical officials involved in coordinating the international medical response, who say the problem is because of the massive numbers of injuries treated in poor conditions in an already weak health infrastructure.
The unusually high level of second operations, along with other mounting medical issues, comes as many emergency medical groups from around the world are returning home. On Wednesday, Feb. 24, the U.S. is pulling its crew out of the field hospital next to Gheskio?the last of a handful of temporary field hospitals that were set up by U.S. health authorities.
Gheskio officials originally expected the U.S. team to stay until mid-March, said Dr. Pape, and were surprised to learn that they had to take over this week. "It is reflective of the confusion surrounding all of this," he said.
Other nongovernment agencies are leaving as well. The USNC Comfort, a medical ship, also is phasing out patients. It has 50 patients currently, and is taking no more.
"We are moving from the immediate emergency phase responding to the direct consequences," said Dr. Ronald Waldman, the U.S. health emergency coordinator, who has been stationed in Port-au-Prince since shortly after the earthquake. Now, he said, medical aid is moving to a second stage "to make sure that people who are displaced don't suffer from indirect consequences."
The shift threatens to overwhelm the medical community here. Many health-care facilities remain unusable, and new cases of diarrhea, malaria and other diseases are picking up in tent communities crammed with tens of thousands of people who lost their homes.
"If you want to spread tuberculosis, jam a bunch of people into tents next to each other," said Warren Johnson, a Gheskio co-founder who is director of the Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. "The second phase promises to be as cruel as the first."
In the field hospital next to Gheskio, about 50 workers tended to more than 3,000 earthquake victims. Guards from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne division protected the hospital. The hospital saw 150 to 200 patients a day, according to Helen Miller, the chief medical officer there.
"It is hard to see where the emergency ends and where the line to recovery begins in this situation," she said.
She said that the equipment, including big tents that made up operating rooms, a tuberculosis area and others would remain. But the Army will leave along with the medical team.
Gheskio will take over the field hospital, with help from the Caris Foundation, a Texas nonprofit that aids impoverished people, and Weill Cornell. The hospital will become a rehabilitation center and treat common diseases, as well as redoing surgeries.
Dr. Waldman said many people with amputations need to have their initial surgeries fixed so they can be fitted with prosthesis. "Because of the nature of this disaster and the nature of injuries to the survivors, that first emergency part is really not going to go away for some time," said Dr. Waldman.
Dr. Pape said that surgeries were done hastily under poor conditions. Makeshift operating rooms weren't sterile. Some wounds came in so dirty that they now have bone infections. Stefano Zannini, the chief of mission at Doctors without Borders in Port-au-Prince, said Port-au-Prince lacked operating theaters and surgeons after the earthquake and some patients refused to be operated on indoors.
Gheskio is seeing its own AIDS and tuberculosis patients while trying to care for 6,300 refugees who moved onto the clinic's property, clinic officials say. More than 1,000 children are under 5 years old.
Gheskio workers ask daily whether refugees have fever, diarrhea, cough or skin lesions, the clinic says. Meanwhile, Gheskio is making plans to try to move the entire tent city to higher ground before rainy season begins in April.
(Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2010)
Emergency Doctors Leave Haiti
By IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN
PORT-AU-PRINCE?Doctors here are bracing for another onslaught of patients, as emergency workers leave the country and thousands of surgeries done after the January 12 earthquake need to be redone.
Between 25% and 30% of postearthquake surgeries will need to be done again to avoid problems, says Dr. Jean "William" Pape, an infectious disease authority who is founder of Gheskio, an HIV/AIDS clinic next door to a field hospital set up by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That estimate is corroborated by Haitian, U.S. and other medical officials involved in coordinating the international medical response, who say the problem is because of the massive numbers of injuries treated in poor conditions in an already weak health infrastructure.
The unusually high level of second operations, along with other mounting medical issues, comes as many emergency medical groups from around the world are returning home. On Wednesday, Feb. 24, the U.S. is pulling its crew out of the field hospital next to Gheskio?the last of a handful of temporary field hospitals that were set up by U.S. health authorities.
Gheskio officials originally expected the U.S. team to stay until mid-March, said Dr. Pape, and were surprised to learn that they had to take over this week. "It is reflective of the confusion surrounding all of this," he said.
Other nongovernment agencies are leaving as well. The USNC Comfort, a medical ship, also is phasing out patients. It has 50 patients currently, and is taking no more.
"We are moving from the immediate emergency phase responding to the direct consequences," said Dr. Ronald Waldman, the U.S. health emergency coordinator, who has been stationed in Port-au-Prince since shortly after the earthquake. Now, he said, medical aid is moving to a second stage "to make sure that people who are displaced don't suffer from indirect consequences."
The shift threatens to overwhelm the medical community here. Many health-care facilities remain unusable, and new cases of diarrhea, malaria and other diseases are picking up in tent communities crammed with tens of thousands of people who lost their homes.
"If you want to spread tuberculosis, jam a bunch of people into tents next to each other," said Warren Johnson, a Gheskio co-founder who is director of the Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. "The second phase promises to be as cruel as the first."
In the field hospital next to Gheskio, about 50 workers tended to more than 3,000 earthquake victims. Guards from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne division protected the hospital. The hospital saw 150 to 200 patients a day, according to Helen Miller, the chief medical officer there.
"It is hard to see where the emergency ends and where the line to recovery begins in this situation," she said.
She said that the equipment, including big tents that made up operating rooms, a tuberculosis area and others would remain. But the Army will leave along with the medical team.
Gheskio will take over the field hospital, with help from the Caris Foundation, a Texas nonprofit that aids impoverished people, and Weill Cornell. The hospital will become a rehabilitation center and treat common diseases, as well as redoing surgeries.
Dr. Waldman said many people with amputations need to have their initial surgeries fixed so they can be fitted with prosthesis. "Because of the nature of this disaster and the nature of injuries to the survivors, that first emergency part is really not going to go away for some time," said Dr. Waldman.
Dr. Pape said that surgeries were done hastily under poor conditions. Makeshift operating rooms weren't sterile. Some wounds came in so dirty that they now have bone infections. Stefano Zannini, the chief of mission at Doctors without Borders in Port-au-Prince, said Port-au-Prince lacked operating theaters and surgeons after the earthquake and some patients refused to be operated on indoors.
Gheskio is seeing its own AIDS and tuberculosis patients while trying to care for 6,300 refugees who moved onto the clinic's property, clinic officials say. More than 1,000 children are under 5 years old.
Gheskio workers ask daily whether refugees have fever, diarrhea, cough or skin lesions, the clinic says. Meanwhile, Gheskio is making plans to try to move the entire tent city to higher ground before rainy season begins in April.
Magnitude 5.9 - HAITI REGION
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Preliminary Earthquake Report: HAITI REGION
HAITI is experiencing HUGE AFTERSHOCKS
but from reports now from the ground...
although lots of the rubble is moving
and buildings are still falling from these
the people are pretty unflappable
nothing compares with "Samson" as Richard Morse of the Hotel Oloffson has dubbed it
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Preliminary Earthquake Report: HAITI REGION
HAITI is experiencing HUGE AFTERSHOCKS
but from reports now from the ground...
although lots of the rubble is moving
and buildings are still falling from these
the people are pretty unflappable
nothing compares with "Samson" as Richard Morse of the Hotel Oloffson has dubbed it
Two earthquake preparedness guides
Prepare
from the US gov
and here
About Matt Lawrence-fReado
from DR1s Pyratt
Prepare
from the US gov
and here
About Matt Lawrence-fReado
from DR1s Pyratt