Haiti: Surgery, Post-Op Care Remain Most Pressing Medical Needs According to Doctors Without Borders

by Gary Kopycinski on January 26, 2010

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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…