Haiti: Emergency medical care after the quake
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Channel: United Nations · 2010 · News & Politics
United Nations, February 2010 - With 8 out of 11 hospitals destroyed and hundreds of thousands of injured in desperate need for help, emergency medical response after the Haiti earthquake turned into an example of international solidarity. From makeshift clinics in the street to US Navy hospital ships with high-tech operating rooms saving the lives of people with badly crushed limbs and infected wounds became a race against time. Amidst all the pain there were some small miracles all while new babies were being born
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