Haiti Hospitals Struggle To Treat Thousands Injured In Quake

Quake injured wait for help as new disaster overwhelms Haiti

Under Haiti’s burning heat, Jennie Auguste lies with a lost, thousand-yard stare on a flimsy foam mattress placed on an airport’s tarmac. A resident of the southwestern part of the Caribbean nation, Auguste has wounds in the chest, abdomen and arm after the roof of the store she worked at collapsed during a powerful earthquake over the weekend.She flashes the occasional grimace of pain while her sister or other helpful bystanders fan her. In the…

Quake injured wait for help as new disaster overwhelms Haiti

Under Haiti’s burning heat, Jennie Auguste lies with a lost, thousand-yard stare on a flimsy foam mattress placed on an airport’s tarmac. A resident of the southwestern part of the Caribbean nation, Auguste has wounds in the chest, abdomen and arm after the roof of the store she worked at collapsed during a powerful earthquake over the weekend.She flashes the occasional grimace of pain while her sister or other helpful bystanders fan her. In the…

Quake injured wait for help as new disaster overwhelms Haiti

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Under Haiti’s burning heat, Jennie Auguste lies with a lost, thousand-yard stare on a flimsy foam mattress placed on an airport’s tarmac. A resident of the southwestern part of the Caribbean nation, Auguste has wounds in the chest, abdomen and arm after the roof of the store she worked at collapsed during a powerful earthquake over the weekend.She flashes the occasional grimace of pain while her sister or other helpful by…

Quake injured wait for help as new disaster overwhelms Haiti

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Under Haiti’s burning heat, Jennie Auguste lies with a lost, thousand-yard stare on a flimsy foam mattress placed on an airport’s tarmac. A resident of the southwestern part of the Caribbean nation, Auguste has wounds in the chest, abdomen and arm after the roof of the store she worked at collapsed during a powerful earthquake over the weekend.She flashes the occasional grimace of pain while her sister or other helpful by…

Haiti hospitals struggle to treat thousands injured in quake

Hunched on benches, curled up in chairs or even lying the floor, those injured in the powerful earthquake that wreaked havoc on Haiti on Saturday crowded an overburdened hospital near the epicenter.The emergency room in Les Cayes, in southwestern Haiti, which was devastated by the 7.2-magnitude quake on Saturday morning that killed at least 1,297 people, is expecting reinforcements to help treat some of the thousands of injured. “At the time of …

Earthquake injured wait for help as new disaster overwhelms Haiti

The devastation after the earthquake in Haiti could soon worsen with the coming of Tropical Depression Grace, which is predicted to reach the country on Monday night.