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Refugees arrive in north of Haiti - 28/01/2010 15:02
We heard from our partners that yesterday their clinic was flooded by a huge bus load of patients travelling north from Port au Prince. Even two weeks on from the earthquake, there are so many refugees who have not had access to any form of healthcare. Today, a team of medics from the UK are flying to our partners hospital in the north to provide surgical support. Our partners have been co-ordinating with the US Army, local hospitals and the UN in trying to get patients flown up to the north to be treated in their clinic. Our partners are also continuing to distribute food, Red Cross sanitation packs and even special malnourishment packs for children. They are working non-stop, delivering aid to everyone they can, but there are still so many in need of help....
Trauma in Haiti - 24/01/2010 15:17
Reports from our partners in Haiti are telling us of fears of the traumatic effect this earthquake has had on so many Haitians. Paralysed by fear, some of those who have reached them in the north are refusing to sleep inside a building. Not only are medics having to deal On Friday, our partners returned to Port-au-Prince in their ambulance, delivering much needed medical supplies to one of the few functional hospitals there and food to an orphanage of around 70 children. Sadly, many of the smaller impromptu villages of tents which have been set up around Port-au-Prince are being Now refugees from Port au Prince are starting to arrive in Cap-Haïtien, our partners health clinic is proving essential in providing free care and their ambulance is in high demand. An operating team will shortly be heading to their clinic to set them up as a field hospital, so they...
Hospitals in Port-au-Prince - 21/01/2010 15:33
Our partners drove down to Port-au-Prince again yesterday, as another aftershock rippled across the country. We have heard how delayed some of the aid has been in reaching Haiti, and our partners told us how they were shocked and saddened to see the actual amount of aid which had arrived, As they brought crucial orthopaedic equipment to a hospital in Port-au-Prince, our partners told us: "In this hospital, every bit of floor space was crammed full of patients. The whole outside area was full of tents with patients underneath. Despite this, there was a calm atmosphere. We were amazed at...
New hospital opens in Haiti - 20/01/2010 15:53
Today was the grand opening of our partners hospital in the north of Haiti. Opened six months ahead of schedule, there was no pomp and no ceremony. Instead the hospital was immediately christened by admitting its first patients from the earthquake zone in Port au Prince. The main government hospital As the refugees start to arrive in the north, there is a major need for aid to be directed there, as well as to Port au Prince. Unless aid starts arriving in the north soon, there will be another crisis situation there with the many earthquake survivors expected to seek...
Aftershock hits Haiti - 20/01/2010 15:36
As a magnitude 6 aftershock puts yet more Haitian lives in danger, Caroline Saunders, Director of Jubilee Action, a British charity that has been working on the ground in Haiti since 2008, said: “We welcome the fact that US troops and military equipment are now helping the aid effort in “Working on the ground in Haiti we know how impoverished the people are and how severely this earthquake will affect them. With thousands of people now heading out of Port au Prince to the north of the country in search of medical assistance and shelter, we are currently recruiting medical...
