
Monday, 26 April 2010
Haiti hell continues months after earthquake
Haiti hell continues months after earthquake: "Children’s wards in emergency hospitals don’t get any easier. Knowing what to expect just makes it worse. But I’ve learnt not to talk. You just can’t trust your voice. And don’t let them see you choke. The one thing they really don’t need is any more expensively imported western tears. The tented wards of this make-do hospital are pitched in the courtyard of an old concrete-and-brick one that was untouched by the earthquake, perhaps protected by the little icon of the Virgin Mary. The sick and injured won’t go back inside. They’re terrified of another shock, of being trapped in their beds under this sorry, suspended, crushing weight. So it hangs empty.
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