HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2010. The core medical activities in Haiti are still very much focused on treating people who were injured in the January 12 earthquake, with surgery continuing and post-operative care expanding. But as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Emergency Medical Coordinator Rosa Crestani explains, there is a new phase underway. “While we have done life-saving interventions so far, we need now to be able to do more limb-saving interventions. That means operating on people with wounds that are getting infected and which may infect the entire limb in a few days unless they undergo surgery.” To deal with the demand for this type of care, Crestani says, MSF has opened third operating theater at the Choscal hospital in Cite Soleil. “MSF has also started running mobile clinics to search for people who need urgent care, but who had been unable to get any yet,” she adds.
