Photos from Haiti

HealtheChildren has partnered with many groups including the Bon Samaritan School, Americares, St. Andrews and St. John's Episcopal parishes in Connecticut, and Stamford Community Hospital, following the February earthquake in Haiti. Together, this temporary clinic in Carrefour has been serving an average of 175 patients a day, drawing upon the expertise of both foreign, and local Haitian providers.
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Team Members at the Clinic in Carrefour.


Pediatrician Patrica Jorquera examining a child with a chronic rash.


Ann Giuli R.N., right, cleaning an infected wound. These daily dressing changes have saved many limbs.


The clinic opens at 9. People begin lining up at 6, and the waiting room never empties....


A second public health disaster looming after the earthquake, bedsheet housing during the upcoming rainy season.


Carrefour was at the absolute epicenter of the quake, causing almost total destruction of many neighborhoods, like Waney, where the clinic is located.


Even with the loss of over a 1/4 of a million people to the earthquake, the Haitian family unit is still strong.


Despite an earthquake and a lack of running water, children in Haiti always present to the clinic in the cleanest of clothes.


Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, may be an accurate discription of this boy's diagnosis. But, how do you put into words losing your entire family?


In the midst of tradgedy, children always find a way to smile.


One third of all Haitian adults are suffering from undiagnosed, and untreated hypertension; causing very high rates of heart attack and stroke.


Surgeon, David Reed, seeing a patient for follow-up of a finger he had to amputate.


Scabies, endemic to Haiti, has reached epidemic proportions with the earthquake and its displacement of people.


Just 3 months, this baby's mother had stopped breastfeeding him, worried that "bad spirits," from the quake might get into the baby through her milk.


R.N., Teresa Norris, making one of her patient's feel just a little too comfortable.