http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/cuban-run-hospital-performs-amputationsPeace Hospital is one of a dozen hospitals and makeshift clinics run by Cuban doctors who were among the first medics to arrive in Port-au-Prince. Local Haitian staff abandoned Peace Hospital when the quake hit, but now doctors who took over say they are treating about 500 patients a day.
They are performing many amputations.
"Now, so many days after the earthquake, those rescued are usually already suffering from gangrene," says Jorge Fran Martinez, a Cuban anesthesiologist.
He and a team of doctors are operating on the right leg of a young woman. They hope to save it because as soon as they are finished with that procedure, they will have to amputate her left leg.
In the corridor, another little girl on a stretcher quietly whimpers. Her face was crushed by a building, and she was trapped under the rubble for so long her chin was infected by maggots...
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