HAITI, Jan 19, 2010. - Around 50 Haitian fifth year Medicine students arrived on Tuesday to this city from Cuba, to join the actions to help the victims of the arthquake that devastated that nation a week ago today. The need of surgeries exceeds the current capacity of specialized personnel. Doctors amputate necrotic fore and back limbs of the wounded, which have spent too much time without antibiotics, and continue their treatment to make them feel better. There are limitations of resources, of medicaments, but the objective of assuring the survival of each person treated is intensified. It’s in this regard that the Cuba-Haiti shuttle service is materialized, along with a strategy of curative and preventive actions. Coordinated steps between the representatives from Cuba, Venezuela and other nations of the Bolivarian Alternative for The Americas (ALBA) are important. On Tuesday, the Nuit a Nuit market, inside a huge building, opened its doors by surprise. It’s one of the very few, if not the only one of its kind, that has been able to resume its activities. Some gas service stations have begun their sales, and lines of vehicles are long. Parallel to this image, groups of people dig about in the rubble looking for food and all kinds of items –from electrical to communication devices. Hunger and need originate terrible clashes. Added to this is the action of informal groups after the marketing opportunities with products that may arrive. They get control of the items that, in an uncontrolled way, are practically thrown to Haitians asking for food in the very few spots to which these resources from the so-called “humanitarian aid” are taken. (Cubaminrex - acn) |