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With more than 900 patients having passed through MSF's surgical facilities and increasing numbers of patients with renal failure receiving life-saving dialysis, there is already significant need for specialist and sometimes long-term care, such as physiotherapy and psychological support. At the same time there has been an overall expansion of surgical provision in Haiti, as other medical organisations, including the military, have stepped up their work. Aftercare will soon become very demanding and MSF is starting to organise post operative care units.
"When you have so many injured people with deep wounds, open fractures and crushed limbs, the more and the faster you can proceed, the better it is,” explained Xavier Lassalle, one of MSF's specialist medical advisors. “But providing for these surgical and medical needs will take months and usually many of these emergency surgical teams stay no more than a few weeks. Most of the wounded have infected wounds in their limbs and they will have to undergo several cleaning operations in theatre, and then often orthopaedic and reconstructive surgery. This requires post-operative care for several weeks.”
With more than 900 patients having passed through MSF's surgical facilities and increasing numbers of patients with renal failure receiving life-saving dialysis, there is already significant need for specialist and sometimes long-term care, such as physiotherapy and psychological support. At the same time there has been an overall expansion of surgical provision in Haiti, as other medical organisations, including the military, have stepped up their work. Aftercare will soon become very demanding and MSF is starting to organise post operative care units.
"When you have so many injured people with deep wounds, open fractures and crushed limbs, the more and the faster you can proceed, the better it is,” explained Xavier Lassalle, one of MSF's specialist medical advisors. “But providing for these surgical and medical needs will take months and usually many of these emergency surgical teams stay no more than a few weeks. Most of the wounded have infected wounds in their limbs and they will have to undergo several cleaning operations in theatre, and then often orthopaedic and reconstructive surgery. This requires post-operative care for several weeks.”
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