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<http://www.msf.ca/news-media/news/2010/01/haiti-msf-cargo-plane-with-full-hospital-and-staff-blocked-from-landing-in-port-au-prince/> Haiti: MSF cargo plane with full hospital and staff blocked from landing in Port-au-Prince MSF demands deployment of lifesaving medical equipment given priority Published 17 January 2010 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations. Priority must be given immediately to planes carrying lifesaving equipment and medical personnel. Despite guarantees, given by the United Nations and the U.S. Defense Department, an MSF cargo plane carrying an inflatable surgical hospital was blocked from landing in Port-au-Prince on Saturday Jan. 16, and was re-routed to Samana, in Dominican Republic. All material from the cargo is now being sent by truck from Samana, but this has added a 24-hour delay for the arrival of the hospital. A second MSF plane is currently on its way and scheduled to land today in Port- au-Prince at around 10:00 a.m. local time with additional lifesaving medical material and the rest of the equipment for the hospital. If this plane is also rerouted, then the installation of the hospital will be further delayed, in a situation where thousands of wounded are still in need of life saving treatment. The inflatable hospital includes 2 operating theaters, an intensive care unit, 100-bed hospitalization capacity, an emergency room and all the necessary equipment needed for sterilizing material. MSF teams are currently working around the clock in 5 different hospitals in Port-au-Prince, but only 2 operating theaters are fully functional, while a third operating theater has been improvised for minor surgery due to the massive influx of wounded and lack of functional referral structures. ========== See also: >From Al-Jazeera: Disputes emerge over Haiti aid control "Most Haitians here have seen little humanitarian aid so far. What they have seen is guns, and plenty of them." "Here the Americans have taken control. It looks more like the Green Zone in Baghdad than a centre for aid distribution." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F5TwEK24sA&feature=player_embedded ========== And in case you missed it: Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before They Shock Again Democracy Now! January 14, 2010 http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/14/naomi_klein_issues_haiti_disaster_capitalism ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
