The Paris-based medical humanitarian organization said the cargo plane carrying 12 tons of drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines was turned away three times and diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic.
More than 30 countries have rushed relief to Haiti since Tuesday's devastating earthquake, choking the small airfield operated by U.S. Air Force air traffic controllers.
"We cannot accept that planes carrying lifesaving medical supplies and equipment continue to be turned away while our patients die," said Rosa Crestani, a MSF medical coordinator at a Port-au-Prince hospital, said in a news release.
Medical teams for dozens of countries were overwhelmed by the casualties caused by January 12 earthquake that is believed to have killed up to 200,000 people.
"It is like working in a war situation," Crestani said. "We don't have any more morphine to manage pain for our patients."
On Sunday, an MSF plane carrying an inflatable surgical hospital was diverted to the Dominican town of Samana, from where it would take 24 hours to get to Port-au-Prince.
MSF doctors said five of their Haitian patients died at one Port-au-Prince hospital for lack of medical supplies.
"I have never seen anything like this," said Loris de Filippi, emergency coordinator at another Haitian hospital.
"Today, there are 12 people who need lifesaving amputations at Choscal Hospital. We were forced to buy a saw in the market to continue amputations," she said.
Look at the extent to which the US has cause theses people to go US has gone, using a saw for amputation, what do they think this is World War 1 & 2, in civilized time like this where there are advance surgical procedure for this type of impact on one's body. People are willing to assist with these procedure and still the US got the nerve of stopping other countries to render there assistance in providing them with medical supplies and other assistance, they are just in that country to make those people suffer even further than they are at the moment...
ReplyDeletewhy are the us stopping other counrties to help haiti? imagine they trun back the caricom countries form helping haiti what haiti need is humanitarian help at this time they do not hatraed and such evil toughts
ReplyDeletei cannot imagine y the americans turn back the caricom countries form helping thats because they want all the power for them sleves and in the future they would diffinitly fall and very hard