Haiti Looks Past Foreign Health Aid

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Haiti Looks Past Foreign Health Aid CAYES JACMEL, Haiti—Word traveled fast after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake that good, free medical care was available at this little hospital in southern Haiti. By 4 a.m. each day, patients start lining up at the Centre Medical Emanuel. "People come from the mountains, hours and days away," says Elaine Kang, a family doctor from New York volunteering here with U.S.-based Team Ange, which has been sending in medical teams and supplies. Recently, however, short of surgeons, Dr. Kang had to turn away patients. New Legs for Haiti's Children View Slideshow Andres Martinez Casares/Polaris for The Wall Street Journal Merline Annoreste, 9, who lost her right leg, and another child who lost his left leg in the Jan. 12 earthquake, played with a balloon at the clinic for handicapped children of "Nos Petits Soeurs et Freres" (Our Little Brothers and Sisters) at St Damien's Hospital in Port-au-Prince. More photos and interactive graphics Now that the need for urgent care has subsided and this island nation has faded from headlines, fewer foreign health professionals are flocking here.[Read more...]

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