HAITI EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

I will be running 12 miles (3 laps of Wollaton park) to raise money for the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to help with the disaster which happened in Haiti over the last few days. Read on for information on the work that MSF are doing:

 

The first reports are now emerging from MSF's teams who were already working on medical projects Haiti. They are treating hundreds of people injured in the quake and have been setting up clinics in tents to replace their own damaged medical facilities.

The Martissant health centre in a poor area of Port-au-Prince had to be evacuated after the earthquake because it was damaged and unstable. The patients are now in tents in the grounds and the medical staff have been dealing with a flow of casualties from the town. They have already treated between 300 and 350 people, mainly for trauma injuries and  fractures. Amongst them are 50 people suffering from burns, some of them severe, frequently caused by domestic gas containers exploding in collapsing buidings.

MSF is also working to get more staff into the country. Around 70 more are expected to arrive in the coming days. MSF is sending out a 100 bed hospital, with an inflatable surgical unit, consisting in two operating theaters and seven hospitalisation tents. Nephrologists to deal with the affects of crush injuries will also be part of the team. However, transport links are difficult and it is not yet clear whether supplies and medical staff will have to go in through neighbouring Domican Republic.

 

 

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