‘I’m the only surgeon’: After Haiti quake, thousands seek scarce care
With just a few dozen doctors available in a region that is home to 1 million people, the quake aftermath was turning increasingly dire.
Les Cayes, Haiti | With broken bones and open wounds, the injured jammed into damaged hospitals or headed to the airport, hoping for mercy flights out. A handful of doctors toiled all night in makeshift triage wards. A retired senator used his seven-seat propeller plane to ferry the most urgent patients to emergency care in the capital.
A day after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake killed hundreds and injured thousands of people in western Haiti, the main airport of the city of Les Cayes was overwhelmed Sunday with people trying to evacuate their loved ones to Port-au-Prince, the capital, about 130 kilometres to the east.
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