Big Israeli field hospital starts treating 500 Haitians a day
DEBKAfile Special Report
January 16, 2010, 1:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Port-au-Prince must be rebult from scratch
The IDF Home Front Command's 250 medical staff and search-and-rescue experts got down to work in Port-au-Prince Saturday, Jan. 16 as international aid began pouring in for the desperately distressed people of Haiti. Estimates of the dead rose to 200,000 as many wounded died for lack of medical aid or remained trapped in the rubble left by Tuesday's massive earthquake.
The Israeli hospital, located in the city's football arena, is equipped with operating theaters, intensive care units, laboratories, an X-ray facility and pharmacy, which were carried in by El Al cargo. A third of the medical team of 40 doctors, 20 paramedics and nurses plus technical staff are reservists who volunteered for the Haiti disaster relief team. Working flat out, they will treat 500 patients a day.
Some 40,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves to ward off disease. Water is beginning to reach the millions deprived of their basic needs by an earthquake which destroyed one-third of the city and its underdeveloped infrastructure.
Haiti handed the international airport to the US military which is controlling and coordinating flights delivering aid and evacuating foreigners and injured. Deliveries are also being diverted from the overloaded airport to overland routes from the Dominican Republic.
Following reports of looting and fights over food, the UN ordered thousands of peacekeepers to deploy in Port-au-Prince to help bring some order out of the chaos. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to visit Haiti to deliver the massive aid supplies coming from America and evacuate US citizens.
Several Israeli and worldwide charities have launched donation campaigns for Haiti victims.
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