The GHESKIO Field Hospital and Clinics after the Earthquake in Haiti — Dispatch 3 from Port-au-Prince

Abstract

After the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the Port-au-Prince clinic of the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) became a refugee camp and an emergency field hospital (see slide show), in addition to remaining a clinic for patients with AIDS or tuberculosis. Our field hospital was established 7 days after the earthquake, with the arrival of a surgical team from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). During the past 4 weeks, the 80-member DHHS team has seen more than 2500 patients, 40% of them less than 18 years of age. The . . .