Birth in Red Cross field hospital in Haiti

Two babies were born on 20 January at a Red Cross Red Crescent field hospital in Port-au-Prince. The babies a boy and a girl and their mothers are reported to be doing well. They were born within the magnitude 6 aftershock that struck early in the morning.

A patient suddenly arrived on whom we had to do a caesarean, and another who we thought we would have to do a caesarean, explained Arthur Halvorsen, a Norwegian Red Cross anaesthesiologist. We took the first mother in to the operating theatre and managed to deliver the baby in a caesarean. This kid is now doing very well. The other mother who was brought in actually ended up giving birth naturally while we were doing the first caesarean.

Red Cross Red Crescent surgeons began operating at the hospital on Tuesday (19 January).

A large number of those coming here are having to have amputations since their wounds are so infected, explained Norwegian Red Cross surgeon Brynjulf Ystgaard. It is always a tough decision to make, and even harder in a poor country like Haiti.

The 70 bed hospital can treat up to 200 patients a day. It is set up close to the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince and has a staff of more than 20 from Canada, Norway and Israel. The hospital has an outpatient clinic, two operating theatres, a mother and child unit and post-operative care facilities.

The provision of emergency health assistance remains a top priority for the Red Cross Red Crescent in Haiti. As well as the field hospital, two basic health care emergency response units are now operational. These mobile clinics are designed to provide curative and preventative health care to 30,000 people in the wake of a disaster.

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[gadionson1]

great!!! I like it!!

[popscoop12]

I have family in the island right next 2 Haiti but thay r ok

[mariejoy18]

THATs good ms apple/ and tnx 4 this vid..

red cross is the spirit.

^^ tnx

[applesweeter]

I give some donation to Red Cross (Hong Kong) to help those victims in Haqiti Earthquake.

[redmarya]

The Norwegian Red Cross... doing an amazing job...