{"id":194051,"date":"2010-01-18T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2010-01-18T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:56:56","slug":"haiti-update-images-from-port-au-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/194051","title":{"rendered":"Haiti update: Images from Port-au-Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46706993@N08\/sets\/72157623229666870\/show\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4347 alignleft\" title=\"4282675096_fa9814a465_m\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/4282675096_fa9814a465_m.jpg\" alt=\"4282675096_fa9814a465_m\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>David Walton, MD, a physician with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standwithhaiti.org\/haiti\">Partners in Health<\/a>, arrived in Port-au-Prince within 48 hours of the earthquake. He met with Partners In Health and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pih.org\/where\/Haiti\/Haiti.html\">Zanmi Lasante<\/a> (Partners In Health&#8217;s Haitian sister organization) leadership to pursue a coordinated strategy for medical relief.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to providing desperately needed medical care and arranging relief effort logistics, Walton was able to document the scene with his camera.<\/p>\n<p>View <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46706993@N08\/sets\/72157623229666870\/show\/\">this photo gallery<\/a> for a glimpse into the challenging and heartbreaking situation in Port-au-Prince right now.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.wmpeds.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wmpeds.com\/staff\/dr-hartman.htm\">Lester Hartman, MD<\/a>, a Children\u2019s-affiliated pediatrician who runs a clinic in the mountains of Haiti, made his way to the region within days of the earthquake. He&#8217;s been sending email updates about what he&#8217;s seeing on the ground. Last night he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Brought 40 people from sheet cities in Port-au-Prince &#8211; will house up in closed school near clinic. Several kids with fractures.<br \/>\nOur driver just informed girlfriend died. Be back midnight from Dominican Republic, pics to follow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019ll update you on Hartman\u2019s progress and that of the <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/childrenshospitalblog\/~3\/childrens-disaster-response-team-still-en-route-to-haiti\/\">Children\u2019s team that has been trying to get to Haiti<\/a> since last week as soon as we have more information.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"mailto:?subject=Haiti%20update%3A%20Images%20from%20Port-au-Prince&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fhaiti-update-images-from-port-au-prince%2F\" title=\"email\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/email_link.png\" title=\"email\" alt=\"email\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fhaiti-update-images-from-port-au-prince%2F&amp;t=Haiti%20update%3A%20Images%20from%20Port-au-Prince\" title=\"Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/facebook.png\" title=\"Facebook\" alt=\"Facebook\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Haiti%20update%3A%20Images%20from%20Port-au-Prince%20-%20http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fhaiti-update-images-from-port-au-prince%2F\" title=\"Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/twitter.png\" title=\"Twitter\" alt=\"Twitter\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fhaiti-update-images-from-port-au-prince%2F&amp;title=Haiti%20update%3A%20Images%20from%20Port-au-Prince&amp;bodytext=David%20Walton%2C%20MD%2C%20a%20physician%20with%20Partners%20in%20Health%2C%20arrived%20in%20Port-au-Prince%20within%2048%20hours%20of%20the%20earthquake.%20He%20met%20with%20Partners%20In%20Health%20and%20Zanmi%20Lasante%20%28Partners%20In%20Health%27s%20Haitian%20sister%20organization%29%20leadership%20to%20pursue%20a%20coordinated\" title=\"Digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/digg.png\" title=\"Digg\" alt=\"Digg\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshospitalblog.org%2Fhaiti-update-images-from-port-au-prince%2F&amp;title=Haiti%20update%3A%20Images%20from%20Port-au-Prince&amp;notes=David%20Walton%2C%20MD%2C%20a%20physician%20with%20Partners%20in%20Health%2C%20arrived%20in%20Port-au-Prince%20within%2048%20hours%20of%20the%20earthquake.%20He%20met%20with%20Partners%20In%20Health%20and%20Zanmi%20Lasante%20%28Partners%20In%20Health%27s%20Haitian%20sister%20organization%29%20leadership%20to%20pursue%20a%20coordinated\" title=\"del.icio.us\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/delicious.png\" title=\"del.icio.us\" alt=\"del.icio.us\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/childrenshospitalblog\/~4\/YUvAwec9YSQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Walton, MD, a physician with Partners in Health, arrived in Port-au-Prince within 48 hours of the earthquake. He met with Partners In Health and Zanmi Lasante (Partners In Health&#8217;s Haitian sister organization) leadership to pursue a coordinated strategy for medical relief. In addition to providing desperately needed medical care and arranging relief effort logistics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}