By SCOTT FARWELL / The Dallas Morning News sfarwell@dallasnews.com PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Minutes after the earthquake, mangled bodies began appearing in the courtyard of Hospital of the Sacred Heart. Dr. Reynold Savain becomes emotional while discussing the failure of Centre Hospitalier du Sacre’-Coeur/CDTI, the hospital that he and his family owned. Dr. Reynold Savain...
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JOHANNESBURG — In India, World Cup fever has fueled a rivalry between rickshaw drivers. Revenge-minded Serbians are backing the Americans — in hopes of a chance to beat them in Round Two. In Haiti, pro-Brazil passion helps chase away the post-earthquake blues. No other sporting event stirs up such a surge of emotion all...
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The list of what needs to be fixed in Haiti is distressingly long, and progress has been frustratingly slow. But two areas require urgent attention from the Haitian government and its main international backers, the United Nations and the United States: KEEP WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAFE. More than a million people are still displaced,...
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A BP document has revealed the company estimated that 100,000 barrels of oil a day could, in theory, flow from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well. That amount, included in an undated internal document released by US Congressman Ed Markey, is nearly twice the current US estimate of the leak. BP says the 100,000...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, June 20 (UPI) — Volunteer doctors and donated supplies poured in from abroad after the January Haiti earthquake, but local doctors and private hospitals say they are closing. They can’t compete with the free medical care, The Dallas Morning News reported. Centre Hospitalier du Sacre-Coeur/CDTI, a private facility owned by Dr. Reynold...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — For Pierre Yves Jovin, director of the Port-au-Prince city morgue and his employees, the nightmare doesn’t end. After the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people, the morgue was inundated with thousands of corpses. Not only were the refrigerated rooms full but the hallways, and hundreds of bodies lay...
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