The Darius attended 170 Haitians after Quake

To fulfill two years of the earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital, the Dario Contreras hospital recalled the leading role that played such a centre in the assistance of Haitian patients with various traumas he received, being served between 12 and 27 January 2010 a total of 170 people with the most varied physical injuries.

The Centre reminds that the first patient to the hospital facilities was Gertha Sylvain, and was also the last to leave the internment of the center room five months later.

Lady of Haitian nationality was bedridden in bed for almost five months for having vertebro-spinal trauma.

He arrived in an ambulance moved by "his brethren of the Church" from Haiti, where a wall above fell you and fractured his spinal cord.

"I was in the yard of my house when I felt that the world I came up with the strong movement of the Earth and was in the" u000a"moment of the wall I fall back", narrated the patient in this occasion

In written statements, the authorities of the specialized trauma care centre, remember that two years after the tragedy, many of those affected by that catastrophe were assisted in this facility.

Concern that the earthquake occurred on January 12 and injured patients began to reach the hospital from 14, with a total of 12 persons day.

Indicates that the hospital lasted 14 days getting affected in various ways, mainly by helicopters. "I remember those days of hard days where our admissions rooms were occupied by long period by injured brothers and Haitian nationals," said the Center.

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