http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/febrero/vier24/10pakis.html
More than one million Pakistanis treated by Cuban doctors
. 10,920 operations performed, 39.9% of them major
TEXT AND PHOTOS: Juvenal Balán Neyra, Granma daily special correspondent
THE white-coated army comprising the Henry Reeve International Contingent,
whose vanguard arrived in Pakistan on October 14 last year to give humanitarian
aid to the victims of the devastating earthquake six days previously, have
attended to 1,043,125 patients, of which 439,894 were treated in field
hospitals in the northern mountains of this country.
That figure was announced at the command post of the contingent located in
Abbottabad on February 23. It was also stated that 503,881 of the patients are
women, representing 48.3%.
In the field hospital operating rooms at various points of the Pakistani
provinces of NWFP and Kashmir most affected by the quake, orthopedics and
surgeons have performed 10,920 important operations, many of them highly
complex.
In addition, the rooms in the Cuban field hospitals located at 32 positions in
the region of the disaster, have admitted close to 6,000 patients for a number
of days to guarantee them adequate medical attention.
In Data hospital in the Mansehra district, it is already commonplace to the see
two adolescents aged 14 and 13 daily crossing the field hospital from the
in-patients section to that occupied by the rehabilitation and physiotherapy
teams. Both of them are from Balakot and have had a limb amputated. They are
victims of the earthquake. Omer Zeb painfully recalls how he held his youngest
sister tightly to his chest under the roof of their home and realized that she
had died. Nasir Crujjar was left an orphan.
Now they are having daily specialized treatment for their amputation wounds and
exercise sessions to strengthen the stump and increase its angle of movement,
with the aim of receiving an artificial replacement which will allow them
reinsertion in society and subsequently, post-prosthesis treatment.
Omer and Nasir are just two examples of the 76,183 patients to have received
physiotherapy in the Cuban contingent's field hospital, who have benefited from
432,118 rehabilitation techniques, including sophisticated equipment like laser
rays.
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