PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–3 February 2010 – A cacophony of songs and voices drifts from the tented camp as thousands of handheld radios transmit entertainment and, more important, information. A UNICEF public service announcement on nutrition blares out of several radios tuned into Port-au-Prince’s Radio One. The station is just one of[Read More…]

BELGIUM–(ENEWSPF)–February 3, 2010.  The Multinational Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) has conducted its third humanitarian relief mission to Haiti on 2 February 2010, flown by SAC’s operational arm, the Heavy Airlift Wing based in Pápa Air Base in Hungary. The flight delivered supplies to Haiti in response to a massive earthquake[Read More…]

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2010.  Immediately following Haiti’s devastating earthquake Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams worked around the clock to meet the overwhelming demand for severe trauma or orthopedic surgery. At the same time, MSF also provided emergency obstetrics care for pregnant mothers, including performing more ‘routine’ life-saving operations, such[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–2 February 2010 – Beyond food, hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake victims displaced from their homes in Port-au-Prince, Léogâne and Jacmel urgently need shelter, with plastic sheeting taking priority over tents, the United Nations reported today in its latest update three weeks after the catastrophe struck the poorest[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2010.  As part of the ongoing medical response to the Haiti earthquake, USAID, the agency coordinating the US Government response, announced today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has activated additional components of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)  to help U.S. hospitals provide care to critically ill survivors.[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–2 February 2010 – UNICEF has maintained a presence in Haiti since 1949. The earthquake that struck this country with such disastrous force on 12 January has significantly affected the agency’s capacity to respond, but staff members have been adapting to difficult conditions on the ground. Their work has[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2010.  The American Medical Association announced today its new Web site registry supported by the National Disaster Life Support (NDLS) that can easily coordinate the deployment of physicians who are willing to volunteer with federal and private sector response organizations in Haiti. Physicians can sign up at www.ama-assn.org/go/haiti-volunteer.[Read More…]

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–1 February 2010.  Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operating theaters and emergency wards in Haiti are still busy. The two teams in Leogane, for instance, are carrying out an average of 30 operations each day, as are the teams at the new hospital in Carrefour. The inflatable hospital in[Read More…]

Port-au-Prince, HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–01 Feb 2010 – The Bel Air neighborhood in downtown Port-au-Prince has seen its share of troubles including poverty, high unemployment, gang violence and other social ills. But nothing prepared the usually resilient community for the earthquake that struck on January 20. Many of the residents were forced to[Read More…]

Port-au-Prince–(ENEWSPF)–1 February 2010.  To meet the enormous health challenges posed by the January 12 earthquake, Haitian authorities, United Nations agencies and donor countries have been providing tons of medicines to scores of health partners on a daily basis through a large-scale coordinated effort run out of the country’s pharmaceuticals hub[Read More…]