Japan resident Nithiananthan Veeravagu is working in Haiti for the NGO Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (www.amdainternational.com):
There was an aftershock this morning, but the area I am in, St. Marc, is fine. I make day trips to Port-au-Prince and head back to St. Marc at nighttime.
We are working at the local hospital, St. Nicolas. It's amazing what we found in storage at the hospital. They had all these pieces of equipment for operations, but the admin people had no idea at all they were there until we tried to clean up to accommodate more patients. We found a very, very old X-ray machine in the corner, and guess what? When we turned it on, voila! It works, although the pictures come out looking like cells of movies from the 1900s.
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