The city remains in darkness over the deteriorating power lines and lack of communications. Photo: AIN

I have no words to describe these early days in Port au Prince, maybe you should repeat what was said by a Cuban doctor who previously was in Haiti when natural disasters in 2005 and 2008: there is like nothing I've ever seen.

A city, which has been bombarded, as those images that I ever came through documentaries or films that dealt with events of the Second World War, or about U.S. war of aggression against Vietnam.

This city will never be the same

Tens of thousands of victims, it is said, because although there can be no real statistics and do not know if it ever will. The debris of the city covered the possibly hundreds of people.

The uncertainty, the fear, the anxiety and the despair began to show on the faces of the thousands who wander about the streets or accepted it for day and night, for the insecurity of homes and buildings is present to present in them.

Even, the repeated aftershocks, arrived in Haiti a reinforcement of 60 members of the Cuban Medical Brigade Henry Reeve, which was created by Fidel to provide professional supportive assistance anywhere in the world.

They joined more than 300 who are here spread throughout the mountainous nation. Many of them have been transferred to Port au Prince and have been since the first time have faced the consequences of this earthquake of 7 degrees that he had no compassion for this suffering people

We arrived at a field hospital located in the central courtyard of what is called by the Haitians El Anexo, which is only a building nearby which adds to the known Military Hospital.

There, under the big tent, the Cuban surgeons-without rest-serving one after another, those who arrive injured or maimed. The row is endless as is the constant arrival of people seeking medical attention.

At the same time I am  writing these lines, the Cuban doctors have served more than a thousand people in just over 24 hours. Dozens of them has required surgery. It has also been created another field hospital in the Renacimiento Ophthalmologist Center, which was carried out Operacion Milagro. 

The city remains in darkness over the deteriorating power lines and lack of communications, also caused by the earthquake; it has allowed me to reach you with the direct sound. We hope at some point to tell them to come to you with first hand accounts of what is happening here in Port au Prince.

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