Doctors Without Borders Report from Haiti: ‘This Overwhleming Force’

by Gary Kopycinski on January 21, 2010

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HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2010.

Isabelle Jeanson has worked in communications with Doctors WIthout Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) since 2003. She has spent time with MSF missions in Colombia, Russia, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, and she served as an emergency press officer in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami. She joined the emergency team in Haiti 48 hours after the January 12 earthquake struck, and filed this report on the morning of January 21:

I had…