JAN 18: "DOUBT CAN MEAN DEATH"

Photo from AFP: "A Haitian woman sits outside the General Hospital after members of Medicins Du Monde amputated one of her arms." Due to the delay of proper medical care arriving to response teams, infections are now forcing medical personnel to conduct mass amputations to save lives. The scenes have been compared to a 19th-century war. Read the full article from AFP here.

Tomorrow will be a week. God help the people of Haiti and the honorable Doctors and Nurses who are doing what they can. God help the souls of those in charge here in our country that have allowed this hell to continue for seven days. We are the mightiest and most powerful country on the planet and the response should have been faster and greater. There is no need for so many people to lose limbs and to suffer so greatly from infected wounds.