“Instead of dying, I took the decision of letting them cut off my arm.” Haitians continue to show up at hospitals seeking care two weeks after a powerful earthquake. The delay in medical care has placed many at high risk of infections and even amputations.
Doctors at first told the 36-year-old they would try to save his right arm. He had surgery to place rods in to stabilize the broken bone. Then came an infection and a second operation.
The magnitude 7.2 quake, centered under the country’s southwest peninsula, killed at least 2,207 and injured 12,268 people. About 130,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. Hospitals, schools, offices and churches were also affected. The nongovernmental organization Humanity and Inclusion concluded that as a result of the complications, “amputations represented an exceptionally large proportion of the surgical operations” and added, “Some amputations performed under extremely difficult circumstances required corrective surgery.”
“People can be traumatized, and they can be very sad, depressed, but also some of them, they’re kind of in denial, and they believe extremely strongly that their life is going to be the same, which can be true, but same but different.” rehab specialist Virginie Duclos said.
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