Did you know that the UN ordered an emergency team of doctors who had just arrived ready to treat injured patients in a makeshift hospital tent to LEAVE them to possibly die?
When we saw the feed coming in from Haiti about this we could hardly believe what we were reading so I verified it with several media sources and its true. What we thought was the calvary turned tail and ran away leaving only CNN's reporter / Doctor Sanjay Gupta to try and care for dozens of injured people by himself.
EVERYONE needs to contact the United Nations and complain about this right NOW! I mean there should be so many complaints that the UN would need to hire staff just to read them all! We do not want a repeat hurricane Katrina situation where healthy people die of neglect!
It is one thing if the calvary cannot reach people in time for reasons beyond their control until people become ill and pass away, but they had already overcome whatever challenges they may have faced to get to the makeshift hospital full of injured people and THEN THEY LEFT! Its so upsetting and for what? What justifiable reason could there be. Of course its not safe to go into a disaster area.
We can understand that Haiti has its problems of all kinds right now. That is NO EXCUSE for the UN to have ordered emergency doctors to leave the sick who desperately needed help last night because of so called 'security concerns'. What could they have been thinking. CNN's Sanjay Gupta was apparently the only doctor to stay and disobey the UN orders.
He stayed up all night to care for dozens of patients all alone, being forced to enlist his team of reporters to help him with the work doctors should have done. There was complete peace and quiet as they worked through the night so we may never know what the United Nation's so called security concern might have been in the first place. Well thank God for Gupta who was not afraid and so he did not betray his hypocratic oath!
Any so-called doctors who would leave in this situation on orders from the UN or anyone else is a coward and does not belong there in my opinion. If you have no heart to disobey bad orders telling you not to help please stay home! Space is limited and YOU are sitting in a "real doctor without borders" seat on the plane.
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STORY UPDATE 1:
The UN insists that they did not order the doctors to leave, however SOMEONE DID. And if not them, then who?
In any case they went back so thank God!
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STORY UPDATE 2:
CONFIRMED: the United Nations were NOT the ones who ordered the doctors to leave. It was someone on the doctors OWN TEAM.
In my opinion that person should no longer be allowed to command the team of doctors and these doctors need to do what they know is right, no matter what.
In any case they all went back in the morning due to the many complaints received so thank you everyone for complaining.
Special thanks to CNN's Doctor Sanjay Gupta. Thanks to ONLY HIM and his team (of reporters and camera men, not doctors), everyone of the sick and injured Haitians made it through the night.
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FOR LIVE UPDATES VISIT: USA for Haiti
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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3 comments:
Can REPERATION laws help HAITI and how can it help the people in Haiti at this time of crisis?
How long has your organization been in Haiti? It baffles me how NGOs are making and have been making careers out of Haiti's ills for several years, yet there is very little to show for their presence there due to no accountability laws in Haiti. So answer me this: What are you guys good for?
To AfroLatino: USAforHaiti is not in Haiti and is not an NGO, but does support and work with some of those on the ground. There are many NGOs in Haiti who have helped a lot and if you knew anything then you would know that NGOs do not generally get any compensation at all for their work so it hardly qualifies as a 'career' since career is something you are paid for. If anything they end up losing money on their efforts. Ultimately it is up to the government to fix its country. There's only so much anyone can do without government's support and that gov has been corrupt for a long time. If other govts interfere, they are accused of trying to take over. If the do nothing people ask, why aren't you helping. Its a lose, lose situation.
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