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Nightmare Continues in Haiti: Untreated Injuries, 1.5 Million Homeless

By Jeralyn

It's important to keep the devastating news from Haiti at the top of our consciousness. The news is no longer 24/7, but the nightmare continues.

“There are still thousands of patients with major fractures, major wounds, that have not been treated yet,” said Dr. Eduardo de Marchena, a University of Miami cardiologist who oversaw a tent hospital near the airport where hundreds of severely injured people were being tended. “There are people, many people, who are going to die unless they’re treated.”

....In the squatter camps now scattered across this capital, there are still people writhing in pain, their injuries bound up by relatives but not yet seen by a doctor eight days after the quake struck. On top of that, the many bodies still in the wreckage increase the risk of diseases spreading, especially, experts say, if there is rain.

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Haiti is preparing tent camps to relocate 400,000 left homeless by the earthquake.

For those who try get caught trying to flee to the U.S. by boat, it will be Welcome to Gitmo.

Yesterday, the House passed a bill to allow U.S. taxpayers to deduct contributions to Haiti on their 2009 tax returns instead of having to wait until 2010.

The Hope for Haiti telethon is tomorrow night and will air on 11 networks.

Beginning on Friday, iTunes customers will be able to exclusively pre-order both the Hope for Haiti Now full performance album ($7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast ($1.99). Pre-orders will be delivered in the days following the telethon. Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for 99 cents each in the days following the telethon. Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by "Hope for Haiti Now" charities.

But you don't have to wait until then to contribute.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).