Admit injured Haitian children- US doctors

United States, January 18: The US government is being asked by the doctors in American to admit those Haitian children who have received critical injuries in the earthquake.

And to help a large number of Haitians who have become orphans by the earthquake, the Catholic Church in Miami plans Operation Pierre Pan to airlift such children from Haiti.

Amid several repeated requests from the US doctors to admit severely injured Haitian children for treatment and after the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, visited the capital of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, giving assurances about all possible help from America in this hour of crisis, the US government finally gave its nod to do so.

Thus, a four-month critically injured Haitian girl named Jean by the medics was allowed into the US for receiving treatment even though the US does not allow any Haitians into the country even in critical times.

Jean, whose parents have reportedly died in the earthquake of Haiti, was rescued by the relief workers from the wrecks of her home this Saturday after having survived in the debris for 85 hours without water.

However, the child was air-lifted to Fort Lauderdale after she was resuscitated in a tented clinic. According to John McDonald from the University of Miami Medical School said Jean was responding to the treatment at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami and was recovering well.

The doctors have been very sad and remorseful by the US government’s pressure to discharge and send back even critically injured children back into the streets of Port-au-Prince. And to make things worse for the doctors, the UN ordered for vacating all tented clinics by January 17.

The reason cited by the UN for vacating of the tents seems to be quite vague and has no concerns even for those who are in need of emergency medical supervision.  The UN says it needs tents for posting their regular personnel. 

Hence, various church representatives in Miami have been asking the US Department of Homeland Security to provide shelter to the orphaned or injured Haitian children in the US. They want to stabilize these children to help them recover from the terrible disaster.