Photos from Hinche

Posted on Jan 15, 2010

 


Cars and buses of injured patients from Port-au-Prince have been arriving at the PIH/Zanmi Lasante hospital in Hinche.

 
 


UN and Red Cross workers helped facilitate the patient arrivals as well as handle family members arriving to search for injured loved ones.

 
 


The hospital is seeing many cases needing orthopedic surgery.

 
 

Clinician caring for the injured.

 
 


A shipment of mattresses to help accomodate more patients.

 

Photos taken at the Hinche Hospital, which is run by PIH/Zanmi Lasante. Hinche is about 3 hours by car from the capital city of Port-au-Prince. As the facility was structurally unharmed by the earthquake, many patients are being sent here for medical care.

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