1-17 | Huge surgical need, food and water still lackingMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgical units in Port-au-Prince continue to work around the clock to treat the vast numbers of patients with serious injuries from the January 12 earthquake. Prioritizing the most serious cases, the teams have been performing caesarian sections and amputations. Experienced MSF medical staff say they have never seen so many serious injuries.
1-16 | The MSF teams in Port au Prince are focusing their attention now on expanding their surgical capacity and two operating theatres are now working to help 300 patients who have been transferred to the MSF facility at Choscal hospital in the Cite Soleil district. The rest of the medical staff are still responding to the hundreds of people at their clinics who need immediate first aid and more basic care for their wounds. Equipment that could be salvaged from the damaged health facilities at Maternite Solidarite hospital has been taken to Choscal.
1-15 | The MSF medical teams in Port au Prince have been treating very large numbers of people who come to them with fractures, head injuries and other major trauma from the quake. Well over a thousand patients been through the four tented facilities that MSF has set up near the damaged buildings that it used to work in. The main concern at the moment from the medical staff in those clinics is that the need for wound treatment and major surgery is overwhelming.
1-14 | The first reports are now emerging from MSF's teams who were already working on medical projects Haiti. They are treating around 1,000 of people injured in the quake and have been setting up clinics in tents to replace their own damaged medical facilities.
1-13 | On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 quake struck about 15 kilometers southwest of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams on the ground have witnessed significant damage to its medical facilities, injuries to patients and staff, and an influx of wounded towards these hospitals in the capital.