Jan. 15: Earthquake victims gather in makeshift communities as they await medical aid and food.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — For years, Claude Surena has treated the sick at his two-story hillside home near the center of the Haitian capital.
A magnitude-7.0 earthquake has brought the 59-year-old pediatrician’s involvement to a whole new level.
Surena has converted his property into a field hospital for more than 100 quake victims. His patients are treated in the shaded, leafy patio of his undamaged home while thousands of others in the city lie in the dirt under a merciless sun waiting for attention from a handful of doctors.
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“I have to thank whoever brought me,” said Steve Julien, who says the last thing he remembers before he blacked out was rescue workers calling his name as they dug through the rubble of his house.
When he woke up, he was lying on a mattress inside Surena’s soothing oasis.
It wasn’t long after Tuesday’s earthquake leveled nearly all of the houses next to Surena’s that neighbors started showing up at his doorstep.
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