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The Haitian connection

S A Alton1

  • 1OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois, USA.

Haiti is a land of overwhelming poverty, lacking in resources and struggling with underdeveloped health care. Social and health care problems contribute to produce a high infant mortality and infectious disease rate. Trauma care is mostly nonexistent although injury is common. Experiences encountered while working with the local population in Haiti are described.

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