Within a matter of hours on Jan. 12, Dr. Henri Ford understood why “he was put on this earth.” The former chief of pediatric surgery at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh realized he could heal some of the suffering wrought by the earthquake that rocked his native Haiti earlier that day. “I was uniquely qualified...
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Of the more than 1.5 million Haitians left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake, about 7,500 have been moved from the most dangerous areas of crowded tent cities to new resettlement sites. The conditions in those tent cities are grim. Thunderstorms are fierce, and the plastic sheets and tarps distributed after the disaster are...
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