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Lack of doctors, rehab threaten Haitians’ recovery

March 11, 2010
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Lack of doctors, rehab threaten Haitians’ recovery

Haitians injured in the January earthquake face leaving hospitals for camps that lackrehabilitation facilities. BY FRANCES ROBLES frobles@MiamiHerald.com FOND PARISIEN, Haiti — In the turmoil that followed Haiti’s earthquake, Eugette Thimo waited with a broken foot for five days in a hospital yard littered with the dead. The delay to see a doctor eventually...
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Kidnapping raises risks for aid workers in Haiti

March 11, 2010
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Kidnapping raises risks for aid workers in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE — The first kidnappings of aid workers in Haiti jolted the thousands-strong foreign relief operation in the quake-torn nation Thursday, adding to the staggering challenges it faces two months after the country’s deadly disaster. Two European women workers with the French-based aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) were released early...
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