NURSES STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN TIDE OF HUMAN MISERY IN HAITI AFTER DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE
February 1st, 2010
BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE
A CONTINUING flow of seriously injured people continue to provide deep challenges to nurses at the Port-au-Prince's barely functioning hospitals, nearly two weeks after a massive earthquake overwhelmed medical staff.
We try to do the best we can," said Enid Paret, a nurse at the University Hospital, the Haitian capital's largest, which was damaged by the quake but still operates. "There are many things we do now that we wouldn't do under normal circumstances," she told the Nursing Standard.
Then again, these are not normal ...
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