The emergency room in Les Cayes, which was devastated by the 7.2-magnitude quake on Saturday, is expecting reinforcements.
A hospital in Les Cayes, in southwestern Haiti, was inundated with injured after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the areaLES CAYES - Hunched on benches, curled up in chairs or even lying on the floor, those injured in the powerful earthquake that wreaked havoc on Haiti on Saturday crowded an overburdened hospital near the epicenter.
"This morning, it's getting better because we received orthopedists, surgeons and almost 42 residents distributed across all the hospitals of the department."Patients rested outside a hospital in Les Cayes, with many people afraid to stay indoors over concerns unstable buildings might collapse in earthquake aftershocks"The lack of equipment is chronic," he told AFP, gesturing to a woman sat in a corner with a large open wound on her leg.
"When the earthquake happened... a tremor threw me in the air and I landed on my arm," recalled Venel Senat, in his forties."Neighbors came to help me get a taxi. I went to several hospitals, but they were overloaded.
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