HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. Nearly two weeks after the January 12 earthquake, the most pressing needs Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Haiti face are patients who still require surgery and the growing number of patients who now require post-operative care. In Port-au-Prince, Choscal hospital in the Cite Soleil slum is still working around-the-clock, operating on an average of 20 to 25 people each day. In the town of Leogane, where MSF recently started performing surgeries in the local hospital, surgeons have completed 30 operations and at least 40 more are pending. In Martissant, where an operating theater opened almost immediately after the earthquake, 20 people with open fractures are awaiting treatment.Additionally, many of the people who’ve already had operations need some form of continuing care. The demand for beds and nursing resources is substantial. Therefore, MSF has started accommodating post-operative patients in a newly opened structure in the Bicentenarie section of Port-au-Prince and is preparing a former nursery elsewhere in the capital for the same purpose. Because of damage sustained during last week’s aftershock, patients who had been staying in Carrefour Hospital have been moved into a school building nearby. And on Monday, MSF opened the inflatable hospital it built in Delmas and began accepting patients and performing surgeries.
