Haiti: earthquake survivors need continuous care in the south | Doctors without borders

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Many patients, especially those living in the mountainous countryside of the region, had a difficult and long journey to Les Cayes.

“I was on my way to tend the cattle when suddenly the ground shook,” recalls Jean Nader Joseph, who goes by Didi. I was with a friend, and he was the first to see the landslide. No sooner had he shouted, “Diddy’s boulders are falling towards us!” When a rock hit him on the head. He died instantly, and the same rock hit my leg. I spent the night in the bush, and my wife and neighbors did not come to free me until the next morning.”

Dèdè says he initially sought treatment from a traditional healer for his injuries, but when he learned that the Hôpital Immaculée Conception was providing care to earthquake survivors for free, he went there. After 12 days in hospital, he had just been discharged and was about to head back to his village two hours away in the mountains outside the town of Camp Berrin. But like many trauma patients, he will still need follow-up care. As more patients progressed with their treatment, MSF started providing physiotherapy in the hospital.

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