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Cassandra Nelson
Director, Multimedia Projects
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Today we delivered three days' worth of high-protein biscuits to 300 patients and their family members.
The General Hospital in Port-au-Prince is the largest hospital in the country. It was damaged in the earthquake but is still functional. However, due to structural damage and the overwhelming number of patients from the earthquake, patients and their families are outside -- on hospital beds, cots and foam pads on the ground.
Doctors treat the patients in the parking lot and on the lawn, applying full body casts, stitches and delivering babies. Surgeries are performed behind a sheet that hangs from a tree branch.
Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
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- Countries: Haiti
- Tags: Displacement
- Topics: Emergency response, Food security, Health
Comments
akshat007
January 31, 2010 4:35PM
Ms.Cassandra,
This is very inspiring and I have to tell you that you have brought life once again to the Haitian people, and im really grateful in saying amazing job on helping all those in need.
I, myself, am planning to come to Haiti over my Spring Break to help out, and being only 16 years old, I have come to known to the importance of helping people in need through your pictures.
Thank you very much.
carol
January 23, 2010 11:06AM
Cassandra, You have captured the hope of the Hatian people in your photographs. We have seen the ruins, and the pain from the mass media. We heard last evening on the televised fund-raiser more about the strength of these people. Thanks you for the photos that show us this hope. A smile can heal