Haiti: Doctors Without Borders Teams Adapting to Needs on the Ground

by Gary Kopycinski on January 26, 2010

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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…