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Arrived Haiti
Jun 04, 2010
After 33+ hours of travel, I arrived Port au Prince, Haiti on 3 June. From the airport to our project site, I can still see a lot of aftermaths from the earthquake four months ago. Still there are buildings crumbled and not yet rebuilt; a lot of tents set up by different NGOs are still there, kids asking for money when our car slowed down. Roads are really bad and that makes our travelling time abnormally long.
Carrefour Orthopaedic Hospital where I am working for has 135 beds and it is almost full. Most of our patients are still victims of the earthquake. Their initial treatment was done under very bad conditions so the results might not be good. With a more stable environment, we can now afford better equipments, operating conditions and of course formal orthopaedic surgeons to revise all these badly done cases. Besides we admit new cases of burn and trauma.
Physiotherapy is also a very important part of the project which helps to rehabilitate all these fractured and amputated patients. I can sense Haitian still need a lot of help to overcome these disaster especially their condition was already bad before the earthquake. They are the poorest of the whole American continent because of political instability, gangster fights and poor agriculture as 90% of trees were burnt down in the past 70 years.
Dr. Ryan KO, surgeon from Hong Kong, joined MSF in 2008.
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