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Tue 01 Jan 2010Eyewitness: Medics And Aid Workers On The Ground Have Their Say
“They pulled her out early this morning. She was barely responding, she had wounds all over her body, and maggots. It's very unusual.” – DR VLADIMIR LAROUCHE, a Haitian-American doctor from New York working at PaP General Hospital, tells of the rescue of an 84-year-old woman after 10 days under a wrecked building.
“We have many patients coming in where wounds have not been covered properly or at all and have become infected. The only option sometimes is to amputate,” – ROBERTO FELIZ, an anaesthetist at a makeshift hospital in the UN base in Port-au-Prince.
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