Haiti and Chile Earthquakes

Doctors Without Borders Report from Haiti: Strong Aftershock Was ‘Frightening for Everyone’

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2010.

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency physician Sebastian Spencer was working at Choscal hospital in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, on January 20 when the area sustained a strong aftershock—one week after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed much of the capital. Dr. Spencer had just finished his second consecutive, hectic, 14-hour shift at the hospital hours before much-needed and delayed medical supplies that had been flown into the Dominican Republic arrived by truck. Here…

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