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- Our emergency medical team is working at the De’l Universite d’etat d’Haiti Rue Monseigneur Guilloux Pau P, Haiti, a 700 bed hospital that is barely functioning. Hundreds of patients are waiting for medical care. Yesterday, only four Haitian doctors were working at the hospital – everyone else is caring for their own families, missing or dead.
- We delivered desperately needed medical supplies to the hospital yesterday. More supplies are expect today, including emergency medical kits and food.
- We are also working out of our hotel — Villa Creole — which has been turned into a make-shift clinic. See pictures under the MEDIA tab on the left.
- The team is treating crush victims, trauma, basic wound care, shock and other critical cases with the few available supplies. A lot of patients with broken bones, fractures and ruptures.
- We are currently treating teenage sisters today. They arrived at the hospital without their parents – we expect they are missing. Both have serious injuries and we are worried one may lose her foot. They are just two of the many people who need our help.
- We have 16 more physicians and nurses arriving today.
–International Medical Corps 1/17/2010
