Hospitals

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Video of IDF field hospital set up in soccer field in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Footage includes images of the premature baby born at the hospital today, and comments by the hospital commander, Col. Dr. Itzik Kryce.

The IDF field hospital is currently the most advanced medical facility in the area, with intensive care units and operating rooms, as well as over 40 doctors and specialists. Currently 39 surgeries have been performed on survivors of the earthquake and 4 babies have been delivered.

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More than 40 volunteers from the University of Chicago Medical Center traveled to Haiti to assist medical relief efforts in the weeks after the January earthquake. Cheryl Reed, senior editor in the UCMC Communications office, spent a week with some of the physicians, nurses and physical therapists working at a field hospital in Fond Parisien, Haiti. In Part 2, the hospital community holds church service, volunteers move the operating rooms by hand, and physical therapists and physicians talk about practicing medicine in unique circumstances.

For more information about UCMC efforts in Haiti, see:
haitirelief.uchicago.edu
sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/tag/haiti
www.chicagonow.com/blogs/a-chicagoan-in-haiti/

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Footage from the IDF Field Hospital that has been set up in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the earthquake. This video includes footage of the first baby born at the field hospital on 17 January 2010. The mother arrived at the IDF field hospital 8 months pregnant and Maj. Dr. Shir Bar and Maj. Efrat Shayer delivered a healthy baby boy, who was named ‘Israel’ by his mother.

The IDF field hospital is currently the largest operating in Port-au-Prince. It has a staff of over 40 doctors, with different specialists, nurses, paramedics and features a maternity ward, ICU, pediatrics unit, internal medicine department, a pharmacy, and operating rooms. The hospital can treat up to 500 patients a day.

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We are receiving news of another unfolding disaster… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJj4VDmVg58 While the rest of the world is still in the planning stage, Cuba and Spain have staffed and equipped real working field hospitals in Haiti and are treating thousands of injured.

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Haiti Birth With Israeli Doctors in IDF Field Hospital Established in Haiti

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With medical care in short supply in quake-struck Haiti, many injured have been transported across the border to the Dominican Republic.

Ambulances and private cars full of victims have been shuttling back and forth from the Haitian capital since the quake hit.

The hospital in the border town of Jimani is now packed with badly injured Haitians and the scene is chaotic.

Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reports from the hospital.
(15 Jan 2010)

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A Fox News clip of Israeli doctors in Haiti

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/16/haiti.abandoned.patients/index.html?hpt=T2
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after a Belgian medical team evacuated the area, saying it was concerned about security.

The decision left CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta as the only doctor at the hospital to get the patients through the night.

CNN initially reported, based on conversations with some of the doctors, that the United Nations ordered the Belgian First Aid and Support Team to evacuate. However, Belgian Chief Coordinator Geert Gijs, a doctor who was at the hospital with 60 Belgian medical personnel, said it was his decision to pull the team out for the night. Gijs said he requested U.N. security personnel to staff the hospital overnight, but was told that peacekeepers would only be able to evacuate the team.

He said it was a “tough decision” but that he accepted the U.N. offer to evacuate after a Canadian medical team, also at the hospital with Canadian security officers, left the site Friday afternoon. The Belgian team returned Saturday morning.

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Gijs said the United Nations has agreed to provide security for Saturday night. The team has requested the Belgian government to send its own troops for the field hospital, which Gijs expects to arrive late Sunday.

Responding to the CNN report that Gupta was the only doctor left at the Port-au-Prince field hospital, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Saturday that the world body’s mission in Haiti did not order any medical team to leave. If the team left, it was at the request of their own organization, he said.

Edmond Mulet, the U.N. assistant secretary general for peacekeeping operations, told reporters later that local security officers deemed the makeshift hospital unsafe.

“It seems that we’ve heard some reports in the international media that the United Nations asked or forced some medical teams to not work any more in some clinic — that is not true, that is completely untrue,” Mulet said Saturday.

CNN video from the scene Friday night shows the Belgian team packing up its supplies and leaving with an escort of blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers in marked trucks.

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Gupta — assisted by other CNN staffers, security personnel and at least one Haitian nurse who refused to leave — assessed the needs of the 25 patients, but there was little they could do without supplies.

More people, some in critical condition, were trickling in late Friday.

“I’ve never been in a situation like this. This is quite ridiculous,” Gupta said.

With a dearth of medical facilities in Haiti’s capital, ambulances had nowhere else to take patients, some of whom had suffered severe trauma — amputations and head injuries — under the rubble. Others had suffered a great deal of blood loss, but there were no blood supplies left at the clinic.

Gupta feared that some would not survive the night.

He and the others stayed with the injured all night, after the medical team had left and after the generators gave out and the tents turned pitch black.

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Cuban doctors work in a hospital in Haiti.

www.concertforhaiti.co.uk

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