"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve" Albert Schweitzer

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Treating Severe Burn Victims After the Earthquake

When Medecins Sans Frontieres La Trinité Hospital was destroyed in the January 12 earthquake, Haiti lost its only specialized treatment unit for victims of severe burns. A dedicated unit with an operating theater has now been installed in MSF's new Saint-Louis Hospital in Port-au-Prince. Below, Dr. Rémy Zilliox, a plastic surgeon and burn specialist at Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon, France, recounts here the three weeks he spent working at Saint-Louis.

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