Haiti and Chile Earthquakes

Haiti: Doctors Without Borders Going Beyond Emergency Care

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2010.  In the immediate aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) focused on emergency surgery and life-saving interventions. Now, though, some MSF teams are seeing more patients who need care for pre-existing conditions and for infections or complications affecting wounds they couldn’t get treated properly. This is not to say that the overall need for medical services is declining. Quite the opposite, in fact. There are…

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