Doctors Trained in Cuba Join Island Peers in Haiti
Survivors who are rescued face a grim situation. More medical care centers set up by Cuban doctors. Health experts from other nations trained in Cuba team up with the island’s specialists.
2010-01-16 | 14:26:05 EST
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 15.— Venezuelans, Haitians and Dominicans trained in Cuba’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM) joined forces with doctors from the island in saving lives and providing assistance to the Haitian people.
“We are receiving large numbers of patients,” a doctor working in a field hospital set up by the Cubans next to the Port-Au-Prince military hospital told the Cuban national television. She said the situation of injured survivors who are rescued is turning grimmer with the days. “Already many patients come in very poor condition and amputations have increased," she said.
Ophthalmologists, laboratory technicians, nurses, general physicians, pediatricians, they are all working tirelessly. "We have done about everything," added another doctor.
Dr. Rafael Reyes, a specialist in Orthopedics who heads the Cuban medical brigade in the Haitian capital, said, when the Cuban field hospital was set up, that all medical facilities in Port-au-Prince had collapsed. "We were the only ones providing medical care at the beginning, until international aid began arriving," he said, adding that the Cuban medical presence had grown with the arrival of more doctors from the island.
Other medical facilities are being set up by the Cuban doctors, who have been joined by experts from other nations.
“We are receiving large numbers of patients,” a doctor working in a field hospital set up by the Cubans next to the Port-Au-Prince military hospital told the Cuban national television. She said the situation of injured survivors who are rescued is turning grimmer with the days. “Already many patients come in very poor condition and amputations have increased," she said.
Ophthalmologists, laboratory technicians, nurses, general physicians, pediatricians, they are all working tirelessly. "We have done about everything," added another doctor.
Dr. Rafael Reyes, a specialist in Orthopedics who heads the Cuban medical brigade in the Haitian capital, said, when the Cuban field hospital was set up, that all medical facilities in Port-au-Prince had collapsed. "We were the only ones providing medical care at the beginning, until international aid began arriving," he said, adding that the Cuban medical presence had grown with the arrival of more doctors from the island.
Other medical facilities are being set up by the Cuban doctors, who have been joined by experts from other nations.
