TodaysNetworkNews: HAITI: ISRAELI FIELD HOSPITAL WORKING AROUND-THE-CLOCK (U.N. MINUSTAH)

TodaysNetworkNews: 18 January 2010 - U.N. MINUSTAH: Port-au-Prince, Haiti - An Israeli field hospital in Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince is working around the clock to bring specialized care to children injured in the earthquake that devastated the Western hemisphere's poorest country last week.

The hospital, set up in tents in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest areas in Port-au-Prince, has already taken in 250 patients, most of them children, and many in desperate conditions. While five patients have died at the hospital, three babies were born.

SOUNDBITE (English) Gili Shenhar, Hospital Director:
"We have treated more than 200 people already. We are taking only the severe cases, in order to take really good care of these people, and to give them the ability to survive."

The hospital has a two week mandate and doctors have performed 140 surgeries, including amputations. They continue to take people in, opting for those who need life saving interventions rather than long term care.

Many of the children have infected and neglected wounds and some of the patients were pulled out of the rubble after being trapped for days, others had been turned away from other hospitals.

SOUNDBITE (English) Tarif Bader, Pediatrician:
"This baby came here with a serious infection to his leg. It could be a very easy decision to have this leg amputated. We consulted with orthopedics and we decided to give him serious antibiotics, and try to save his leg."
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