Gripping Haiti reportage
What medical staffs are witnessing in Haiti as they do the kind of work one associates with the Crimean War. Docs/nurses are operating with vodka-cleansed hacksaws and miner's head lamps. Unable to offer any care at night --no lights, no supplies, no room -- they can only check in the mornings to see who survived the night.
"There are miracles. One girl, whose bed was the back hatch of a Toyota pickup truck, was unstable after we removed her right leg, which had been crushed by the rubble. We left her last night, uncertain if she would survive. But she did. And a sixteen year old girl delivered twins -- still born in the middle of the night, alone in the dark, groaning from the labor pains and the stabbing pain of her crushed and broken leg."

stomach-turning stuff
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