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By Kenneth Kidd
St. Pierre Catholic Church in Petionville, Haiti, is closed for repairs after the earthquake. Services are now conducted in a smaller, adjacent chapel, leaving congregants to spill into one of two church courtyards.
PETIONVILLE, HAITI–The iron gates that lead from the small chapel to the main church have been chained shut.
Paper signs in Creole and French plead for help with rebuilding.
Competition
CONCACAF Women’s U17
Date
15 March 2010
By JENNIFER KAY (AP)
MIAMI — E-mails obtained by The Associated Press show that Florida and the federal government squabbled over where to send injured earthquake survivors while a humanitarian crisis unfolded in Haiti.
Hundreds of injured survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake were brought to Florida hospitals. State officials say they were not getting enough notice or basic information about some of the patients.
By Mark Guidera
In an essay published in last week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Johns Hopkins emergency physician outlines how he and other physicians who worked in Haiti after the earthquake had to make emotionally difficult ethical decisions daily in the face of a crushing wave of patients and inadequate medical resources.
Thomas D. Kirsch writes in the essay that the team of Johns Hopkins physicians that he led in Haiti for two weeks soon after the earthquake had to quickly adjust standards of care that are common in the United States due to the sheer volume of patients,
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