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Tue 01 Jan 2010'I never thought I would see such things'

A Cuban medical team is treating the injured, but has now run out of anaesthetic, writes LARA MARLOWEin Port-au-Prince

SIX-YEAR-OLD Faimi Lamy’s screams pierce the morning air as a Cuban nun, a trained nurse, draws needle and thread through the raw meat that is the stub of the little girl’s left arm.