Doctors on the Front Line HAITI Part 1 of 3

Episode 1 of our series on the work of Medecins sans Frontieres in hot spots of conflict. MSF has been operating a trauma centre, St. Joseph's Hospital, in Port-au-Prince, since December 2004. A third of its patients are treated for gunshot wounds. Knife wounds are the second most common category. A Haitian physician working for MSF says, "We have a lot of injuries caused by fragmentation bullets. Usually there is a small entry wound and a small exit wound. These bullets explode inside the abdomen of the patient and cause a lot of internal injuries. Fragmentary bullets are used by everyone." By the end of March 2005, the St. Joseph's doctors had treated more than 1,000 patients for bullet wounds. And the numbers are rising with about 8 victims a day being treated.

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Film & Animation

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• Health and medicine
• United Nations
• War and conflicts

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Please continue this work , it is very good. thank you for all you've done for my country.