There are many lifes to save in Haiti

This January 20th the Haitian people experienced a dawn of surprise and panic when, for several seconds it was felt an earthquake that devastated the Caribbean island this time were 6.1 degrees on the Richter scale.  

Some news agencies located in Puerto Principe reported to Seismological Institute reported local data reveal that the quake registered at six in the morning was loud and lasted several seconds, while humanitarian sources said several buildings affected by the earthquake of 12 January last collapsed. This last shock located its epicenter in the town of Petit-Goave, 60 kilometers to southwest of the capital.

A timely communication with our special envoys reassured us. The press group reporting from the devastated nation, together with all health partners, in excess of 400, lived in the early hours of the day feeling a strange and dangerous, but all are well. Given the unusual "standing", gone are the comments about the mosquitoes and the heat of the night remarkable. The hard task in several field hospitals set up by the Cuban doctors did not expect.  

In Haiti, Cuban doctors are an authority, for example, until yesterday, after the first week from the terrible contingency already had offered 13 418 consultations and 1088 surgeries, 577 of them more complex and 511 minor surgeries. In the pain for so much hardship and death, have also had the joy of enabling 38 births, as showing that the course of life continues.  

The own coexistence with the natives, trust and security that inspired the Cuban doctors and sleeplessness in their attentions made them deserve the respect of staff lifeguard and health of other nations. While a large group of Cuban doctors remain in the hospitals to save lives, another significant number of associates roam the squares, streets and parks assisting hundreds of Haitians, whose injuries do not lead directly to the makeshift hospitals.  

Amid the frequent tremors and panic of the population, international rescue teams reported finding in the final hours of four people, including a small 22 days and a three year old boy who was hospitalized and stable. The other good news is that so far, after the shock of the day, no new casualties were reported, perhaps because the Haitian population has taken the precaution of sleeping in the open.  

However, a new anxiety seized the inhabitants of the island and is the excessive and frightening presence of 13 500 American servicemen. Under the pretext of "humanitarian aid?, Exert its power at key points of the mountainous nation, as Toussaint Louverture International Airport, where hundreds of people come daily for the announced food aid and other necessary items, but only are the suppression of U.S. troops and UN forces themselves.  

Capitalist new agencies and international television unscrupulously manipulate these facts. Insisted on referring to the Haitian people as a nation of uneducated, wild, prone to violence, without pausing to analyze who are victims of a catastrophe of enormous consequence and that many of the acts respond to human survival instinct, before the passage of days and international aid does not reach his hands.  

In this situation, Cuba strengthens its battle for life in Haiti. Despite the global crisis that affects us, the island's government sent more teams Haitian brothers and health personnel, distributed thousands of leaflets with information on hygiene measures to be followed by the danger of epidemics, and a thousand people were vaccinated as part of the 400 thousand doses of anti-tetanus toxoid donated by our Revolution.  

These are just some examples of how much the world needs to do for Haiti, when official data are available from the Civil Protection Directorate of the country confirming the deaths of 75 thousand citizens in the earthquake of 7.3 magnitudes from the previous week, 250 thousand injured, 1.5 million people homeless and three million homeless.  

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