The lack of support for our operation by the United States is shocking and embarrassing and shows how woefully unprepared we are for the realities of disasters. We came to understand that our isolated operation may work in a mission, but not in a disaster.
We first thought we would support those at the helm but soon realized we were almost the only early responders with the critical expertise and equipment to treat an orthopedic disaster such as this.
Still, nobody with a clear plan is in charge, and care is chaotic at best. Doctors are coming into the country with no plan of what they are going to do, and nobody directing them how to do it.
Surgeons who expect to show up and operate will be mistaken. Without a complement of support staff and supplies, they are of limited to no value.
We left feeling as if we abandoned these patients, the country and its people, and we feel terrible.
Helfet himself had connections to Hillary and Bill Clinton and their Clinton Foundation.
At the time, the foundation was active in Haiti. Bill Clinton was also the United Nations special envoy for the country.
Helfet received “intelligence” from Partners in Health, a non-profit partially funded by the Clinton Foundation, that the General Hospital in the capital Port-au-Prince had two functioning operating rooms.
He put together a team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and technicians, 13 in total, to fly on the Synthes plane to Haiti and help however they could.
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The lack of support for our operation by the United States is shocking and embarrassing and shows how woefully unprepared we are for the realities of disasters. We came to understand that our isolated operation may work in a mission, but not in a disaster.
We first thought we would support those at the helm but soon realized we were almost the only early responders with the critical expertise and equipment to treat an orthopedic disaster such as this.
Still, nobody with a clear plan is in charge, and care is chaotic at best. Doctors are coming into the country with no plan of what they are going to do, and nobody directing them how to do it.
Surgeons who expect to show up and operate will be mistaken. Without a complement of support staff and supplies, they are of limited to no value.
We left feeling as if we abandoned these patients, the country and its people, and we feel terrible.
Helfet himself had connections to Hillary and Bill Clinton and their Clinton Foundation.
At the time, the foundation was active in Haiti. Bill Clinton was also the United Nations special envoy for the country.
Helfet received “intelligence” from Partners in Health, a non-profit partially funded by the Clinton Foundation, that the General Hospital in the capital Port-au-Prince had two functioning operating rooms.
He put together a team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and technicians, 13 in total, to fly on the Synthes plane to Haiti and help however they could.
http://www.ntd.tv/2017/12/12/mystery-death-celebrity-surgeon-found-with-knife-in-chest-in-his-manhattan-apartment/ http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/25/doctors.haiti.hardships/index.html